Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Marriage suits him; he has never kept concubines. He stays strictly within the Moslem maximum of four wives at a time, divorces frequently and usually keeps one place in his harem open for any comely virgin who may catch his sickly brown eyes. So far, the only evidence of his age is his growing fondness for talking about the prowess of his youth. A favorite campfire story is about the time when he was wounded in the groin during a desert raid. To spike any calumnies against his manhood, he selected a maiden, married her on the spot, consummated...
...infra-red lamp for another's arthritis. For Mrs. Tommy Dorsey she managed to find $210 worth of silk stockings. Harriette has a reasonable explanation for the fact that most wives do not object to her overt cultivation of their bandleader husbands. She says: "I am the only virgin in the music business. . . . I go out with the fellows, drink with them, don't blink an eye at their broad stories. . . . The work requires concentration...
...courtyard of a convent stood a white statue of the Virgin. A few yards beyond, in the convent basement where faggots were stored, the body of a woman in a blue dress lay twisted on the ground...
...French used to call Metz La Pucelle ("the Virgin"). Up to last week this historic Lorraine stronghold had never been taken by storm. Attila's Huns destroyed it in 451 A.D., but there were no Roman legions there to defend it. It was still in possession of the French when they surrendered in 1870, of the Germans in the autumn of 1918. The French claim that quislings gave it up in 1940. Last week, for the first time, Metz gave way under attack-by Americans...
...their first sore sample of Pacific plowing on Efate, in the New Hebrides, where they planted their first seed. Thick virgin underbrush had to be uprooted, coral sand scraped away. But with the help of French prison labor, they were soon producing. Last Christmas the boys had 15,000 ears of sweet corn...