Word: petticoat
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...Petticoat Influence has very little weight but is deft and amusing. With tongue well in cheek, it sets out to have a few quiet laughs at the British Foreign office, the vanity and complacence of the male, the intuitive cunning of the female...
Most picturesque of diamond tycoons is Solly Joel. He and his two brothers, Jack and Woolf, left London's Petticoat Lane (now officially known as Middlesex Street) some 50 years ago, went diamond hunting in South Africa. Their maternal uncles, Harry and Barney Barnato had preceded them, had somehow garnered a few thousand pounds, bought some claims at Kimberley. Shortly thereafter the Barnatos and the Joels found themselves in the eclectic company of world's richest men. In 1884 Brother Jack was involved in the Illicit Buying Case, jumped bail in South Africa, returned to England where...
...petticoat was yaller an' 'er little...
...preaching proceeds, Fortune played pinochle with fat and red-haired Mrs. Lucy Gurget. Dressed in a red flannel petticoat, yellow blouse and beribboned bonnet with improbable cherries that rattled to her constant laughter, Mrs. Gurget "cooked" for Mr. Solomon Tinkle, basked on the deck of his boat...
...absolute antithesis between Christ and Mexitl?peace and war?is all the more striking because of their resemblance in one important respect. Historian Torquemada, in his Monarchia Indiana, wrote it down that "A woman named Coatlicue or Snake-petticoat [the mother of Mexitl] . . . one day . . . saw a little ball of feathers floating down to her through the air, which she taking . . . found herself in a short time pregnant. . . . Then immediately [Mexitl] was born, fully armed . . . and held as a god, born of a mother without a father?as the great God of Battles...