Word: businesswoman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...give him all, but at the last minute her finer feelings overcame her. When they met again, it was too late, she was about to have a baby by a middle-aged barrister, whom Etta had tricked into fatherhood. Her post-War progress was rapid; she became a smart businesswoman, made a pile, finally completed the furnishing of her house by purchasing a young gigolo husband...
Jeannette Lewis has been a businesswoman since the age of 15 when she raised money to build the Children's Hospital in Hamilton. Twenty years ago, says her legend, she bearded the directors of the Canadian Northern Railway (forerunner of the present state-owned Canadian National) and persuaded them to dig a tunnel under Montreal's Mount Royal, then persuaded Hamilton realtors to develop the area made available by the new line...
Last year Belle Livingstone, no longer young but still a shrewd businesswoman, conducted a "salon of culture, wit and bonhommie" on Manhattan's Park Avenue - a lurid house of night where people sat on cushions on the floor and drank until daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed...