Word: gentlewomen
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...indulges in bland reveries on his numerous seductions. Fellow F.F.V.s who, he remembers, never bought his books will squirm at some of his recollections, if they ever hear about them. Remembers Cabell: "In practice, among the upper circles of the state of Virginia ... a fair number of accessible young gentlewomen whose social standing stayed unquestioned, whether as wives or as spinsters, were no whit averse to extreme amorous dalliance if only you took sane precautions...
...Must Remember." At 33, she took charge of a home for "Sick Gentlewomen in Distressed Circumstances." From then on, God would not wait for Englishmen to muddle through. Despite the Colonel Blimps of the medical corps, she cleaned up the army's medical pestholes in the Crimea. Part sanitary officer, part supply sergeant, and part saint...
...Whatever you take out of a woman in Nursing life before 23 or 24 you more than take out of her at the other end . . . We even prefer not admitting gentlewomen earlier than 26 or 27 for two reasons: one that gentlewomen are younger in knowingness than those who have had to rough it; the other that posts of superintendents will be theirs if they persevere . . . and 24 is too young to superintend...
...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...