Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, 25, better known by her maiden name, Prunella Stack, best known as Britain's Perfect Woman because she heads Women's League of Health & Beauty (founded by her mother), announced in London that she and her husband, the boxing Marquess of Clydesdale, hope for a perfect baby in June. Said she: "I am keeping myself fit for the event...
Manhattan newshawks announced Q. E.'s arrival while she was still miles from Ambrose Light. Not until the next morning did she heave to at Quarantine, greeted there at the end of her strange maiden voyage not by swarms of welcoming craft, but by three hollow grunts from the humble sludge boat Coney Island, on her way to dump outside...
...River, he called for help to a watching throng as his ship was about to collide with the landing float. "First to volunteer," explained he, "was no strong husky male but a frail Dresden China 'doll'. . . . Other persons promptly followed and, in their eagerness, pushed the celestial maiden overboard. . . . Although the girl was drowning in full sight of thousands of Chinese they, with much better appreciation of China's tremendous population than I, passively watched her float past...
...every house there'll be a maiden waiting...
Sympathizers with France appear to outnumber the British specialists. J. P. Morgan's maiden sister Anne sailed last week to supervise the field work of her American Friends of France, Inc., a revival of her American Committee for Devastated France in and after World War I. On Miss Morgan's list of officers are such social lionesses as Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt, Mrs. Ogden Armour of Chicago, Mrs. George A. Crocker, the Misses Elizabeth Perkins, Maude Wetmore and Daisy Fiske Rogers. They send blankets, clothes, ambulances, entirely for civilian relief. Le Paquet au Front-clothes, toilet articles, sweets...