Crossword clues for bess
bess
- Partner of Porgy
- Harry S. Truman's wife
- England's "Good Queen"
- Truman's first lady
- She's after Eleanor
- She succeeded Eleanor
- She preceded Mamie
- Role for Leontyne Price
- Porgy's partner
- Porgy's lady
- Nancy Drew sidekick
- Mrs. H.S.T
- Harry's Mrs
- Gershwin soprano
- First name in first ladies
- First Lady's first name
- First Lady of the 1940s
- First lady between Eleanor and Mamie
- Catfish Row woman
- Catfish Row resident
- Breakthrough role for Leontyne Price
- "The Highwayman" daughter
- "Porgy and __"
- "Good Queen ___"
- Wife of H.S.T
- Tudor monarch moniker
- The Good Queen
- Téa's "Madam Secretary" role
- Sportin' Life gives her a dose of happy dust
- Soprano role since 1935
- She leaves for New York with Sportin' Life
- She followed Eleanor
- Nickname of Harry Truman's wife
- Nickname for Beatrice
- Name for an English queen
- Musical character who sings "Leavin' fo' de Promise' Lan'"
- Ms. Armstrong
- Mary Margaret's mother
- Margaret's mom
- Margaret Truman's mom
- Mamie's White House predecessor
- Lady of Independence
- Housewife of Independence, Mo
- Harry's missus
- Harry Truman's first lady
- Harry S Truman's missus
- Harry Houdini's wife
- Gershwin's "___, You Is My Woman Now"
- Gershwin operatic heroine
- Former resident of the White House
- Former Miss America Myerson
- Elizabeth, familiarly
- Elizabeth diminutively
- Eleanor's follower
- Edward ___ cosmetics
- Crown's girl, in a 1935 opera
- Common horse name
- Catfish Row opera heroine
- Catfish Row heroine of opera
- Brown ___ (British Army musket)
- British royal nickname
- 1940s first lady Truman
- 1940s first lady
- "What You Want wid ___?" (Gershwin tune)
- "Summertime" singer
- "I've Got a Secret" panelist Myerson
- 'Porgy and --'
- Catfish Row soprano
- Mamie's predecessor in the White House
- "The Highwayman" heroine
- Former first lady's name
- Porgy's beloved
- Porgy's woman
- Brown ___ (old musket)
- She was wild about Harry
- Porgy's love
- Actress Armstrong
- Porgy's mate
- "I Loves You, Porgy" singer
- 1940's first lady
- Tudor queen, informally
- 1953 Jean Simmons title role
- First lady before Mamie
- Former first lady's first name
- Mrs. Harry Truman
- Gershwin title character
- Heroine of a Gershwin opera
- Eleanor's follower as first lady
- Catfish Row denizen
- Gershwin heroine
- Mrs. Truman
- Longest-lived first lady
- 1940s-'50s White House name
- "Porgy and ___" (Gershwin opera)
- Gershwin opera heroine
- Gershwin title heroine
- 20th-century first lady
- Harry's lady
- Myerson who was the first Jewish Miss America
- First Lady of the 40's
- Catfish Row gal
- A Truman
- Wife of 53 Down
- A First Lady of the 50's
- Harry's First Lady
- Good Queen _____
- Harry's spouse
- England's Good Queen ___
- Gershwin folk-opera role
- Oldest living First Lady
- Black ___ (Dick Turpin's mare)
- Harry's helpmate
- Wife of Harry S
- Mrs. H.S.T.
- Eleanor's successor
- She seldom harried Harry
- Role in a Gershwin opus
- Miss Myerson
- Truman's true woman
- Harry's mate
- Nickname for Elizabeth I
- Harry's wife
- Houdini's wife
- Female pupil ultimately out of favour
- Queenly name
- '50s first lady
- Queenly nickname
- First lady Truman
- First lady after Eleanor
- Diminutive of a girl's name
- '40s First Lady
- Harry Truman's wife
- Eleanor's White House successor
- Porgy's girlfriend
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Bess or BESS may refer to:
- Bess (name), listing people with either the given name or surname
- Tropical Storm Bess (disambiguation), the name for multiple storms
- Mount Bess, on the border between Alberta and British Columbia, Canada
- Lake Bess, Florida, United States
- Bess Press, a Hawaii-based publisher
- Basic Enlisted Submarine School, commonly known as BESS, the United States Navy's school for enlisted submariners
- Bess (content-control software), a brand of web filtering software
- BESS, a particle physics experiment
- Bess beetle, a family of beetles
Bess is both a surname and a feminine given name, usually a shortened form of Elizabeth. Notable people with the name include:
- Elizabeth I (1533-1603), also known as "Good Queen Bess"
- Bess of Hardwick (1527-1608), daughter of John Hardwick of Hardwicke
- Elizabeth Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (1759-1824), early female novelist
- Bess Phipps Dawson (1916-1994), American painter.
- Bess Houdini (1876-1943), Harry Houdini's wife
- Bess Myerson (1924-2014), first Jewish Miss America, and politician
- Bess Stinson (1902-1996), Arizona state legislator
- Elizabeth Raleigh (1565-1647), wife of Sir Walter Raleigh
- Bess Truman (1885-1982), wife of President Harry S. Truman
- Brandon Bess (born 1987), West Indies Test cricketer
- Calvin Bess, Bishop of Trinidad and Tobago
- Davone Bess (born 1985), National Football League wide receiver
- Georges Bess (born 1947), French comics artist
- Rufus Bess (born 1956), former National Football League cornerback
Fictional characters:
- Bess, in the opera Porgy and Bess
- Bess Marvin, in the Nancy Drew series
- Bess, an alternate personality of Jessica Buchanan in the American soap opera One Life to Live
Usage examples of "bess".
Bess, thought better of her theft and returned the letter to Appleton Manor.
Friedman kept assuring her they were fine, and when Sylvia finally saw the oldfashioned bassinette Bess had chosen tufted in white satin and trimmed with tiny blue bows she became as excited as her mother-in-law.
Their trek took them from tundra fells and bess plains to reedy forest lakes, from lush bogs to windy knolls and grassy meadows bright with summer blooms.
Everyone from the bootboy to the butler wanted the child to be accepted, it seemed to Bess.
BESS, too, had taken a boutonniere from the box, and gone out into the vestibule to find Michael.
Pulling the scarf from her head, Bess Curran knocked at the door of number 206.
Bess and Michael Curran were married in a simple service in the rectory of St.
For Bygones she placed Bess Curran in the town where the Spencers themselves live- LaVyrle Spar Stillwater, Minnesota.
A faint smile curved her lips and shone in her eyes, and Stafford was so fascinated by the sudden gleam of girlishness that he had to bend and pat Bess, who was planting dusty impression on his trousers in her frantic efforts to gain his attention.
To manufacture ammunition there were five hundredweight of lead in bars, fifty pounds of pewter to harden the balls to be used against heavy game, twenty thousand prepared lead musket balls, twenty kegs of first-class sporting gunpowder for the rifles and a hundred kegs of coarse black powder for the Brown Bess muskets, two thousand gunflints, greased patches to ensure a tight fit of the conical bullets in the rifle bore, fine cotton cloth to be cut into more patches, and a large keg of rendered hippopotamus fat to grease them.
The photographs on the wall were striking: one little black girl with enormous wistful eyes, Jimmy Carter in shirtsleeves at a Habitat site, the Somalian bandit he had mentioned to Bess.
Bess Houdini, with a bright ribbon in her hair and red polish on her lips.
Over two hours later Yael was sitting in front of the television set, watching a basketball game, when Bess came into the living room.
Bess looked up to see Yael standing in the entrance to the Iris Johansen waiting room.
After the last show, Harry and I had taken Bess back home and wolfed down a couple of bowls of borscht with brown bread.