Lord Howe was deliberately creating the conditions for a formal challenge to Lady Thatcher's leadership.
Her formal name was "Lady Ka'bel" but her serpentine moniker was far more colorful, Newser points out.
It depends which other first ladies and husbands you compare her with … First ladies are basically surrogate royals in the US, which has a formal office of the first lady and a staff to match.
That elicited laughs from a press corps that has been hungering for opportunities to speak with the first lady outside more formal press conferences.
Why send an under-educated bloke in a formal suit accompanied by a lady in a posh hat before whom people bow and scrape just because of the blood in his veins, rather than for what he has done?
Other elements of the look were formal, even traditional (the first lady's sleek leather gloves, the two girls in their cosy, buttoned-up coats), but the colours were modern, the cheery brights of a holiday snap rather than the sepia tones of an official photograph.
However, she remained a lady of "old Europe: formal, elegant and chic".
It is the home of a trucker's restaurant known fondly as the Fatty Lady's Place — the formal name of the five-table establishment is Napi — which I remembered with great fondness from a trip several years before.
Jefferson purchased some fine clothing for Hemings, which suggests that she accompanied Martha as a lady's maid to formal events.
UPDATE 3/12 6:00 p.m.: In an extensive open letter to the first lady, Figueroa offered a formal apology for what was said but explained that it had been taken out of context.
Across the country, the President and First Lady hosted their first formal dinner in Washington, inviting the nation's governors, in town for the National Governors Association meeting, and their spouses to the White House.
