After a brief imprisonment in 1532 for conspiring to marry his brother's son to a prominent lady-in-waiting against the emperor's wishes, he was released into the service of the viceroy, the Marqués de Villafranca.
It was a catty exposé of the manners of Manhattan's most socially prominent ladies who lunch, and Capote was permanently banished from their company.
The city's economy and culture were flowering; Boston's prominent ladies, many of whom had been active abolitionists, had the means to pursue their own passions and the conscience to help less privileged women do the same.
A senator for less than a year and a half, she has not had much time to build up a vote-catching record; but then neither has she done much (the Ashcroft business apart) at which Mr Talent can point an accusing Republican finger.Mr Talent has tried to appeal to female voters by inviting prominent ladies connected with the Bush administration to say what a good fellow he is.
Brown says propaganda chiefs fear China's most prominent first lady since the Mao era might eclipse her husband.
I was surprised by the way John Galliano's tramp collection had been cleaned up, and how busy the workrooms were filling orders, including one for a ruby taffeta dress bought by a prominent New York lady nobody would ever guess was shopping at Dior after all the show's negative press.
Isley Brothers frontman Ronald Isley even makes an appearance toward the end, independent of a prominent "That Lady" sample on the single "i".
He is usually the first one to arrive at the homes of prominent robbed ladies.
THE WALKER From the writer-director Paul Schrader, the story of a socially connected gay man (Woody Harrelson) who counts among his closest friends some prominent Washington ladies, including a senator's wife (Kristin Scott Thomas) — that is, until he stumbles across a murder.
As an incentive, the paper printed sample letters from three prominent Britons -- Lady Antonia Fraser, John le Carré and Richard Dawkins -- arguing for the defeat of President Bush on Nov. 2.
