But that song's crossover success only added to the steady confusion Lady Antebellum has weathered about its mission.
It was there, on the fourth floor, that a steady parade of ladies, pelts in hand, stopped by to drop off their furs for storage.
As for a throwaway line, it's hard to throw away: you only sell the big, steady numbers that Adele, Lady Antebellum and Eminem sell by reaching the casual consumers, who don't frantically scour mediafire for links: people who still go to shops.
What she mostly gained, besides fame, were unwelcome offers and she a minister's daughter to publish erotica as a steady thing, such as "Lady Chatterley's Lover," at the request of Aldous Huxley, and the spicy memoirs of a maître d'hôtel at Maxim's.
In the same year a help-wanted ad appeared in The New York Sun for a "first class knife cutter on ladies' underwear, steady work year round" and requested applications at 20 St. Marks Place, the address of Joseph Stollwerk, "costumer," a common occupation.
This was an old-school Downton moment, the like of which we've seen too rarely in this series, nicely punctuated by the scene where Sir Richard used the word "bastard" and was rebuked by the Earl of Grantham: "Steady on, sir, the ladies have had enough shock for one day".
Mrs. Clinton's campaign pollster, Mark Penn, took note of voters' contrasting views of the campaign styles of Mr. Giuliani and Mrs. Clinton, and asserted that the first lady was making steady, if slow, progress in establishing herself.
"Lady Gaga shows a steady growth and we have been tracking her for a long time, so I can say this data is accurate," says TC's Bram Kanstein.
The first lady has enjoyed a steady positive approval rating over the past four years, even at times when her husband sank in the polls.
