Pattern and print is the Peter Pilotto signature, but there's something very ladylike about this new collection.
The difficulty is finding something to fight about.Mr Maloney, a bit more of a bruiser than the ladylike Ms Johnson, got off to the most promising start, with the discovery of Stanley Works, a local tool manufacturer whose shareholders had voted to reincorporate in Bermuda.
Her second novel, "Sex Crimes", whose main character blinds her own boyfriend, was so edgy that the publisher redid the American cover to make it seem more ladylike.
Nevertheless, let me take this opportunity to remind conservatives of something William F Buckley once said:Truth is a demure lady, much too ladylike to knock you on your head and drag you to her cave.
But Mr O'Connor also shows the Molly behind the mask; her thoughts are a stream of bawdy Irishisms that belie her ladylike conduct.
At 16, though her parents wished she would do something ladylike, such as learning French, she was touring professionally round the bullrings of Latin America.Learning to kill was harder.
Packing in Pink, a gun accessories firm targeting women, offered ladylike holsters and children's clothes.
ELIZA DOOLITTLE ENTERS the stage unkempt and talking in a strong Cockney accent, but by the end of George Bernard Shaw's play "Pygmalion" she speaks in a much more ladylike fashion.
Like the Americans, British suffragists, led by the National Union of Woman Suffrage Societies, had initially approached their struggle politely, with ladylike lobbying.
Director Fred Zinnemann at Columbia, in a risk-taking gesture, cast Kerr (on loan from MGM) against type in the role of a lusty, adulterous army wife in From Here to Eternity (1953), hoping that Kerr's ladylike poise would provide an interesting contrast to her character's seamy past.
In an era when women were encouraged to be "ladylike," she also promoted bicycling and other physical activity for women.
