Word: missuses
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Presenting Negro Scenes Drawn Upon My Passage Through the South and Reconfigured for the Benefit of Enlightened Audiences Wherever Such May Be Found by Myself, Missus K.E.B. Walker, Colored. At the Carpenter Center Through...
...place in a secret midnight ceremony in Sydney, Australia. The bride, 37-year-old Debbie Rowe, who is carrying Jackson's baby, wore white; the wedding was attended by the groom's entourage and staff, according to Jackson's publicist. It is also the second marriage for the new missus, about whom little is known except that she's a nurse for Jackson's dermatologist and that someone has offered topless photos of her to the tabloids. The happy nuptials took place after Jackson's first Australian HIStory tour concert, which received wan reviews from the locals. One critic called...
...dressed in leather jackets, sporting pompadours and blue suede shoes. I hoped they would not notice that I too was American. I prayed that they would not approach me with tales of their nights on the town in Pair-eee or the presents they were bringing home for the 'missus...
John Adams: Nixon in China (Nonesuch, 1988). The decade's most exhilarating and accomplished new opera: a waltz across the Great Wall with Dick, Pat, Henry, Mao and his missus...
...also has a poetic quality that barely misses overdescription. In one scene, Doctorow depicts a Bronx market, with "every one of the merchants competing with the same oranges and apples and tangerines and peaches and plums for the same prices," and where merchants shout out their prices. "They called Missus, look, I got the best, feel this grapefruit, fresh Georgia peaches just in. They talked they cajoled and the women shopping talked back...