as Pike proved himself adept in the political arena, he also became a social lion in the village of Little Rock, where he served as a symbol of the culture that the ladies of the town were striving so eagerly to cultivate.

The hotel staff, as well as residents of the Excelsior, told us they saw that both ladies were bleeding from scratches as they were seen fleeing down the hall.

When the Achaeans entertained Wednesday last at their annual Carnival masquerade ball, Miss Margaret Pierson was chosen to rule over the festivities, presented at the Muncipal Auditorium and chosen as her ladies in waiting were Misses Clayton Nairne, Eleanor Eustis, Lynn Chapman, Irwin Leatherman of Robinsonville, Miss. and Helene Rowley.

As for the ladies, they were full of charm, and sincerity, and deep and abiding affection for this hurrying driving, honest, little man.

He and some colleagues had stripped naked for a swim in the river when they were surprised by a party of ladies out for a stroll.

" In 1987, Chris Ricciotti started a gay dance group in Providence, RI, using the terms " ladies " and " gents " although dancers were not lining up according to gender.

The following day after the victims ' bodies were found, Bojangles ' manager Marty King, thinking there was a possible connection to the bloody man found in the bathroom, repeated the incident to police officers who then inspected the ladies room.

Mornings were spent in the schoolroom ; there were regimental afternoon walks ; educating the young ladies continued at mealtimes when Miss Edgeworth ate with the family ; at night, the governess slept in a curtained off area in the girls ’ bedroom.

Many early first ladies expressed their own preference for how they were addressed, including the use of such titles as " Lady ", " Mrs. President ", and " Mrs. Presidentress "; Martha Washington was often referred to as " Lady Washington.

Both Martha Washington and Abigail Adams gained fame from the Revolutionary War and were treated as if they were " ladies " of the British royal court.

Regardless of war and the loss of eligible men, young ladies were still subjected to the pressure to marry.

When asked why he didn't name the album " Electric Church " instead of " Electric Ladyland ", Hendrix said some ladies were " electric too ".

His parents were proprietors of a ladies ' clothes shop.

In all this time, great ladies ruled Quedlinburg as abbesses without " taking the veil ", they were free to marry.

The last of these great ladies were a Swedish princess, an early fighter for women's rights, Sofia Albertina.

Sture's widow Dame Kristina, and many other noble Swedish ladies, were sent as prisoners to Denmark.

At the Austrian Court in Vienna in the late 17th century ( 1698 ) ladies were conducted around the room to the tune of a 2-beat measure, which then became the 3 / 4 of the Nach Tanz ( After Dance ), upon which couples got into the position for the Weller and waltzed around the room with gliding steps as in an engraving of the Wirtschaft ( Inn Festival ) given for Peter the Great.

Describing life in Vienna ( dated at either 1776 or 1786 ), Don Curzio wrote, " The people were dancing mad [...] The ladies of Vienna are particularly celebrated for their grace and movements of waltzing of which they never tire.

Members of the royal family, ladies not excepted, were present at many gemots.

Spanking sessions with aristocratic ladies were harmless, not so the whippings administered to orphan girls taken into his household as objects of charity.

Pantalone's character has transcended through the decades ; " were we to seek his present-day counterpart we should not be far wrong in thinking of a middle-aged businessman, wealthy and well esteemed, apt at times to dally with ladies full of doubtful virtue, at other times as apt to show himself the devoted father anxious to protect a young son or puzzled by the actions of a daughter he does not understand ".

After supper the ladies sung Erse songs, to which I listened as an English audience to an Italian opera, delighted with the sound of words which I did not understand.

He worked opposite many of the screen's foremost leading ladies, including Greta Garbo, Katharine Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Joan Crawford, and Carole Lombard.

Jean Froissart, in the fourth book of his Chronicles, reports that sixty knights would come to London to tilt for two days, " accompanied by sixty noble ladies, richly ornamented and dressed ".

The most famous literary version of Melusine tales, that of Jean d ' Arras, compiled about 1382 – 1394, was worked into a collection of " spinning yarns " as told by ladies at their spinning.

The ladies otherwise amuse themselves with recitals of Gilbert & Sullivan, Noël Coward and Ivor Novello (" Dear Ivor "), and employ an eccentric housekeeper, Maud, played in the radio series by character actress Daphne Heard ( and, on her death, by Jean Heywood ).

His leading ladies include Margaret Sullavan, Katharine Hepburn, Paulette Goddard, Jean Harlow, Jean Arthur, Hedy Lamarr, Grace Kelly, Maureen O ' Hara, Ginger Rogers, and Eleanor Powell.

The other two players are Madame Helene Flammarion ( Mary Astor ) and Jacques Picot ( Francis Lederer ), a wealthy bachelor and ladies ' man.

Mama said she was one of the prettiest ladies she had ever seen.

Upon a visit to a local junior college last week, I was shocked to see the young ladies wearing short shorts and the young men wearing Bermuda shorts.

He rammed his mind into focus and said to the two ladies who lay pinkly nude beside him in the desert, `` That was a good bite.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

Based on a statement by Darnley made in 1894, it was believed that a group of Victorian ladies, including Darnley's later wife Florence Morphy, made the presentation after the victory in the Third Test in 1883.

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

As the fire was captured on live television, announcer Howard Cosell stated, " There it is, ladies and gentlemen: the Bronx is burning ".

He was an unapologetic ladies man who enjoyed the company of beautiful women, but he was street-smart and could engage in violent hand to hand fighting if the moment called for it.

Paul, MN, called " Les be Gay and Dance " was started, in which contra dance was done without any reference to gender, avoiding calling moves with any reference to " ladies " or " gents.

In a letter published in The Times newspaper on 9 April 1983, Geoffrey Crawley explained the discrepancy by suggesting that the photograph was " an unintended double exposure of fairy cutouts in the grass ", and thus " both ladies can be quite sincere in believing that they each took it ".

In France, dicing was played by both knights and ladies, despite repeated legislation, including interdictions on the part of St. Louis in 1254 and 1256.

When Bacon was appointed Lord Chancellor, " by special Warrant of the King ", Lady Bacon was given precedence over all other Court ladies.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

From the early 17th century, the play was famous for its ghost and vivid dramatisation of melancholy and insanity, leading to a procession of mad courtiers and ladies in Jacobean and Caroline drama.

He was lionized by the society of the capital, visited in prison by high ladies, who marvelled at his powers of drinking and his devotion to tobacco.

After Schumann's death at the sanatorium in 1856, Brahms divided his time between Hamburg, where he formed and conducted a ladies ' choir, and Detmold in the Principality of Lippe, where he was court music-teacher and conductor.

The tradition originated in 1883 when New York socialite E. Berry Wall presented roses to ladies at a post-Derby party that was attended by Churchill Downs founder and president, Col. M. Lewis Clark.

In 1277 St. Benedict's monastery for nuns was founded, which in the framework of the Pomeranian Reformation in 1545 was then changed into an educational institution for noble protestantic ladies.