Word: chaperone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from female to male. An operation was performed and onetime Zdenka Koubkova was pronounced a man. Although he still crosses his legs and shows his ankle like a woman, Zdenek Koubek has sturdy shoulders, big biceps, shaves. He is one of the two cases which worry-ridden Avery Brundage, chaperon of the U. S. Olympic athletes in Berlin, had in mind when he demanded examination for sex ambiguities in all women competitors (TIME...
They go out to the barn to inspect a sound-recording gadget he has invented while the pressagent-chaperon anxiously asks: "Is there any hay out there?" Carole comes back declaiming: "This is the greatest thing for pictures since the Warner Brothers stretched forth their hands and said, 'Let there be Sound.' " Deciding to stay all night, Carole appears for dinner in a blinding dress apparently made of tinfoil, determines to take the young man to Hollywood...
...third, a pretty Polish girl was asked so many sexy questions that she hired a chaperon to accompany her to "radio college." When her course was completed...
...society editor in town, svelte Ruth Jones. By turning attention to the Capital's 'coon-hunting, cocktail-drinking younger set she has been helping get the Herald into Washington's front doors instead of through the back. Chicago's social press dean is Ervie Ravenbyrne ("Chaperon") of Hearst's American, who weekends with the elect. She and "Dowager" (Helen Young) of Hearst's Herald & Examiner are assisted by able socialite reporters. Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held...
...females at Oxford and Cambridge universities was for many years considered preposterous, most irregular. Certainly the young ladies at Somerville College and Girton College would have to look sharp, behave themselves suitably. Last week it became known that Girton, at least, was letting up on restrictions. Abolished was the chaperon system by which Girton girls could make visits and go to dances only in pairs. They may now visit alone in college rooms or lodgings. They may receive young men in their common rooms until 10 p. m. instead of sending them home...