Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hill the Crimson editor took notice of the homing Wellesley students ambling along beside his car. Nearing the top, he turned to his companion and, never expecting the half-surprised and half-indignant answer he was to get from outside, said, "Where shall I park, next to the Virgin?" "Who, me?" were the words of reply...
Said earnest Miss Warner: "I am a virgin. Yes, that will astonish you French! I am making plenty of money and I have no need...
Moldy Chestnuts Sirs: In TIME, July 15, relative to the political tempest in a teapot in the Virgin Islands, you say: ''Prohibition had ruined the Islanders- by destroying their chief means of livelihood, the manufacture of rum." This is one of the several moldy chestnuts over which every weekending special correspondent who ever visited these Islands smacks his lips, totally ignorant that the kernel carries within it a crawly worm of error. He has read what the next preceding correspondent said and he repeats it to show what a thorough study he has made of the economic conditions...
...HENRY Christiansted, St. Croix, V. I., U. S. TIME erred. In 1919 (year before Prohibition), Virgin Islands' exports amounted to some $1,500,000, less than $10,000 of which was in rum. Following year only $150 worth of rum left the Islands. Latest reports show Virgin Islands' principal exports to be: sugar 54%, cattle 22%, bay rum & oil 14%, molasses, horses, mules, hides, vegetables, fruits, fish, tobacco, turtle shell, fence posts...
When William Somerset Maugham was 23, he wrote a little book on Spain called The Land of the Blessed Virgin. Having escaped uncongenial work in a London hospital, free for the first time, he fell pleasantly in love in Seville, where he was made a "pretty fool of." An inexperienced author, he hesitated about writing the story of his love affair, compromised by turning out a book of sketches the mature Maugham was to dismiss as "crude and gushing." Despite his impulse to try again, despite his deep love for Spain, he could never find a Spanish character or theme...