It is hard to read "Affairs of State" without coming to the conclusion that the modern First Lady simply can't win.

The whole Lady Do-dah always wins the flower show sub-plot.

The Ladies won their respective league in their opening season.

Meanwhile, he wondered whether the Lady was winning her chess game with Pyreforge.

Ladonna had been right to say that the Blue Lady would win the next war.

The recently formed Ladies team comfortably won Channel 2B in their first season as a team.

The Ladies won handily, 105-81, leading by as much as 25.

"Ladies and gentlemen of the Congo," he said, "who have fought for the independence won today, I salute you!"

For no sound reason I had convinced myself that the Lady had won.

Banker's Lady, a 4-year-old Nijinsky filly who did not make her debut until last fall, has won seven of eight career starts.