Word: ann
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...iconoclast, wealthy socialist John Tanner, is a modern counterpart of his ancestor, Don Juan. Tanner violates conventions, rather than damsels. Cunningham plays Tanner well, albeit very seriously. His performance falters only at the end, when he tells the predatory Ann in an intentionally farcical manner that he lover her. Earlier in the act, the confrontation between an American billionaire, Hector Malone, and his rebellious son is also performed with broad, almost burlesque humor. But the Malones' argument forms a self-contained episode and does not jar the audience...
...herself as a Wall Street "businesswoman," publicly proclaimed her belief in spiritualism, vegetarianism, short skirts, legalized prostitution and free love. On election night she was in jail on an obscenity charge. She got very few votes. Ulysses Grant beat her out. Then there is Washington, D.C.'s Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood, the first woman lawyer ever to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. She ran in 1884 and again in 1888 on the Equal Rights ticket-but, as the victories of Benjamin Harrison and Grover Cleveland proved, the nation wasn't ready for her either...
Actually, neither Victoria nor Belva Ann expected to win; they were merely highly vocal suffragettes. Not so Maine's trim, white-haired Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith. Last week Maggie Smith, 66, confessed before the National Women's Press Club in Washington that she has no money, no time to campaign and no organization to speak of. There upon she announced saucily that she is going to run for the G.O.P. presidential nomination just the same...
...ANN SWANSON...
Since the Chronicle introduced Mil ler to its readership 2½ years ago, his column, "The Wonderful World of Animals," has spread to 34 other papers. It may be an unpalatable fact to those who do not find enough news in their newspapers, but this Ann Landers of the furry set now reaches a readership surpassing...