Word: noblewoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After about a minute of this, two of the actresses, playing a noblewoman and her beautiful servant, moved away from the rest of the people toward the corner of the room from which they come on stage to open the second act. As they moved, they talked to each other, half as their characters, half as themselves, improvising their lines. Then, as they stood arguing, Cooper said, "All right, come on. Come on." And, as the rest of the cast was silent, the two girls cut from their improvised dialogue to the lines which open the second act. This time...
Small wonder Rudolf is driven into the arms of a regal young noblewoman named Maria (Catherine Deneuve). The empassioned lovers flee to Mayerling, the royal hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods, where they eventually commit joint suicide. Before he leaves, Rudolf resigns his princely inheritance by throwing his ring in the Emperor's face. Line: "So much for your Holy Roman Empire...
MODERN Irishmen have been driven to assume that you love God by hating women. A curious attitude, but then Ireland has produced some curious women. Grania, a legendary noblewoman of pre-medieval times, was certainly one of those primarily responsible for the bewildered attitude of the Irish. Her countrywomen have been imitating her for centuries...
Reviled by her neighbors, she maintains a wintry dignity by creating the fiction that she is a noblewoman temporarily down on her luck, awaiting an inheritance from her father's estate...
...Italians are scoundrels!" Napoleon once exclaimed in a fit of pique with his compatriots. "Not all," an Italian noblewoman slyly replied, "but a good part (non tutti, ma buona parte...