Word: maidens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Florence Horsbrugh, new Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Health, made her maiden speech to the House of Commons last week in smooth observance of its tradition that a new member should begin by speaking with modesty and humor about nothing of importance. "Maiden aunts are the subject of songs and stories, but they are some of the most useful members of the community," chirped Miss Horsbrugh pleasantly. "I speak with feeling, being one of them!" When Health's Horsbrugh ventured to say that many females of from 60 to 65 are "tired women," Laborite Dr. Edith Summerskill...
...further incentive, the Nazis have promised unmarried mothers who register the paternity of their children as "war father" the right to sign Fran (Mrs.) before their maiden names; and promised to support children born out of wedlock whose fathers are killed in the war. Fortnight ago these encouragements finally brought a rebuke from the German clergy. In a pastoral letter to his Archdiocese of Breslau, Adolf Cardinal Bertram declared that adultery is still a sin and that "opinions and suggestions are being spread which are incompatible with obligations to preserve oneself clean and immaculate in bachelorhood...
...winner in the All-Nations Prize Novel Competition for 1939 (sponsored by Publishers Farrar & Rinehart, various foreign publishers and the Literary Guild). As an officer and a gentleman, Windrush represents a tradition which causes the English distinct pride and a certain worry. Author Henriques worries over him like a maiden aunt. What is somewhat less credible, he makes him a subject of tender concern to his major ("Sammy") and to "Daddy" Watson, the hardbitten subaltern of the introductory scene...