Word: gentlewomen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most luxurious bordello which the U.S. ever saw was Chicago's Everleigh Club. It was run by the Virginia-born Everleigh sisters, Minna and Ada, two corseted women who insisted on being treated as gentlewomen at all times...
...this point they were interrupted by one of those female officials whom Millar always called "Intelligent Gentlewomen." Their voices "reeked of the Tightness of life, of tea in the nursery and snowmen with pipes in their mouths and Struwelpeter and Jemima Puddleduck. . . ." "It is rather a dreadful name," she agreed. 'Perhaps I might manage to get it changed." It was changed to Emile on that last day when, "like any important murderer, I could get anything I wanted...
John Elliott Rankin, Mississippi's demagogic champion of white supremacy, asked Congress to change its custom of calling the nine women members of the House "gentlewomen," instead proposed that they be called "ladies." Quoting dictionary definitions, Gentleman Rankin said: "The term 'gentlewoman' puts the ladies one social step below the 'gentleman' of the House . . . I for one recognize no social distinction...
...story was different. Bombs had begun to fall, by day and by night. The paraphernalia of A. R. P. were part of the landscape. Everyone was doing his bit-even the gentlewomen who practiced rifle shooting against the day when parachutists might land in their rose gardens. The amateur spirit was unconquerable...