Word: kathleen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, some were for dropping the harp altogether and substituting, say, a picture of Kathleen ni Houlihan. But Kathleen's traditional picture turned out to be posed by a mistress of King Charles II, the very Duchess of Richmond who posed as Britannia...
...Kathleen was dropped like a hot spud. In the midst of the gloom the Irish Times at last found a good word to say for the harp. To Irishmen good, black Guinness stout is "the wine of the country." Like Eire, Guinness uses the harp for its emblem. "They have 25 strings to their harps," wrote the Times columnist helpfully. "If you can count them, you can safely order another bottle...
There was nothing more to be said. After Mr. Thomas sang I Love You Truly with only one mistake (inserting "cheer" for "tear" in the second line, first stanza), somebody read a poem contributed by tireless California Author Kathleen Norris ("Where have you flown to, bird, in the dawning glory...
...Kathleen Winsor became a banned author in Sheffield, England, but no prestige attached to it: the city fathers deplored Amber as utter rubbish...
...Kathleen Winsor's bawdy Restoration heroine finally got back to her old tramping grounds-and was promptly put to work selling papers. Last week, in a frontpage box, Lord Rothermere's London Sunday Dispatch announced that it would share with its 1,600,000 readers an authorized, serialized version of Forever Amber...