Word: nell
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...NELL GWYN: ROYAL MISTRESS (309 pp.) John H. Wilson-Pellegrini & Cudahy...
...summer's morning in 1669, Queen Catherine of England popped so inconsiderately into the bedchamber of her spouse, Charles II, that there was scarcely time for Nell Gwyn to pop out of the merry monarch's bed and slip behind the arras. The moment the good queen spied Nell's dainty slipper on the floor, she tumbled to the situation, of course, and delicately repaired her breach of court etiquette with a hasty exit and a solicitous hope that the lady might not "take cold...
...Nell did not mind the inconvenience. She was one of the best-natured girls who ever took a king's mind off his country. In fact, she was such a trouble-to-nobody sort that posterity-even the proper Victorians-has been as uncensorious as the queen; "sweet Nell of Old Drury" has almost been sentimentalized into a saint of strumpetry. It may come as something of a surprise to readers of Author John H. Wilson's brisk but scholarly biography that on contemporary testimony the true, unsanctified Nell was also "wanton, brazen, debauched and humorous ... a bold...
...Nell grew up in her mother's establishment, sweeping the fireplaces and "serving strong waters to the guests." At 13, she improved her station to that of an "orange wench," selling fruit in the theater pit. At 14, the chronicler reports, she was "eased of her virginity," probably by a famous actor, Charles Hart, who cast her in a small part...
...video appearance this year. PROBABLE STARTING LINEUPS DARTMOUTH HARVARD Thieischer (203) LE (180) Crowley Rambour (230) LT (216) Nichois Thornton (200) LG (201) Pappas Papantones (195) C (192) Lemay Reich (200) RG (200) Manos Jones (225) RT (202) Thompson McDonald (210) RE (184) Rate Miller (170) QB (190) O'Nell Curtis (179) LHB (170) Healey Collins (165) RHB (165) Tulenko Jennison (200) FBTab>(192) Ossman...