Word: gentlewoman
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Blanche DuBois is a school teacher who comes to spend the summer with her sister Stella in New Orleans. She is shocked at the meanness of Stella's home, and the vulgarity of Stella's Polish husband. She calls herself a gentlewoman, and passes as one. Slowly, however, her pretence is discovered. In the glare of a naked electric light bulb, Blanche DuBois is forced to admit that she does not tell the truth, "but what ought to be the truth...
...trial for treason dragged into its fifth week, theatrical, horse-faced Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars finally got to the witness stand herself in Washington's Federal District Court. Before a jury of five women and seven men, she slipped into the role of a foolish gentlewoman as though it were a loose kimono, got a handkerchief within easy dabbing distance of her eyes, and set out to explain that she had been true to the red, white & blue all the time...
...back of chairs; don't walk in front of a member who is speaking; don't read newspapers on the floor during a session; don't call colleagues by their given names-Jim or John ("we all know better-it's the gentleman or gentlewoman...
...denominator, it is probably this sense of full but precarious moments-a conviction that beauties are transient, leaseholds short, attitudes fated, and all the foundations mined. Against this conviction Mrs. Daryush, like many another contemporary, balances faith in the precarious art of poetry. Her lyrics are those of a gentlewoman (she lives a retired Oxfordshire country life with her husband, a onetime official of the Persian foreign office), but, like her father's, her poems have responded to public occasions. This was written on the war in Ethiopia...
Pease Pottage ("Taken from The Compleat Housewife or Accomplished Gentlewoman's Companion, published in London...