Word: maidishness
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...Maidish Restrictions. Laborite taunts that the Tories had forced Sir Winston Churchill out of office seemed to get weight from Churchill's first speeches. Obviously he was irritated at the way Eden & Co. had reversed themselves and grabbed at his "parley at the summit" policy the instant he retired. But Sir Winston was too good a party man to let personal pique last the whole campaign. He tore into Labor "with all its paraphernalia of restrictions and regulations . . .," lauded Sir Anthony as "a statesman long versed in parliamentary and cabinet government," and urged Britons to give him "generous...
Both sides made hesitant, amateurish use of TV, handicapped by their own fears of it, and by the old-maidish restrictions of the government-owned BBC. On one TV press conference. Prime Minister Eden gathered his Cabinet stalwarts about him. There was only one declared enemy among the newsmen. "The criticism most frequently made of you," said pro-Labor Editor Hugh Cudlipp, ". . . is that you are not well versed in home affairs . . . What do you feel...
...Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, the magazine took a lingering backward glance at the fun it has had with the nation's manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor has taken, from Peter Arno's old-maidish "whoops" girls of the '20s ("I'm gonna show me profile, dearie!" "Profile? Whoops! I ain't even takin' me coat off"), close kin to the charwomen of London's Punch, to the ghoulish gaiety of Charles Addams. Many a New Yorkerism (e.g., Cartoonist Carl Rose...
With her, and settling down as her next-door neighbor, has come a dilettantish, old-maidish male (Cyril Ritchard). Against her, from the moment she arrives, is the formidable Miss Mapp, a manhunting, stop-at-nothing Nosey Parker (Catherine Willard). The struggle for primacy between the two women-Lucia's efforts to dethrone Miss Mapp as a tyrant, Miss Mapp's to unmask Lucia as a fraud-produces a series of mock-heroic crescendos and climaxes...
Last week Kansas Republicans admitted that they could no longer ignore a ridiculous situation. They had been given a hotfoot by small, bald, old-maidish Harry Hines Woodring, ex-governor (1931-33), ex-Secretary of War (1936-40), who last February lambasted Kansas prohibition as a "farce," called enforcement officers "shadows in a bootleggers' forest...