Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saved the life of the insane Englishwoman, Miss Violet Gibson, who thrust a revolver at his face and actually shot away the tip of his nose (TIME, April 19) by ordering the crowd which would have lynched her to disperse peaceably...
...Jemmett, a young Englishman known for his foppish habit of dress, his astounding height and his skill in the painting of miniatures, leaped into the seas that pounded over some rocks near Biarritz, and with Raoul Fourquet, lifeguard, lost his life in an attempt to rescue a drowning Englishwoman (TIME, Aug. 3, COMMONWEALTH). Inspired by this exploit, one George Conlon, a native of Frostburg, Md., executed a small marble, "To the Heroes of the Sea," which was put on exhibition last month at the Biarritz Golf Club. A committee, organized by the Mayor of Biarritz, has raised funds to copy...
THREE FARMS-Cynthia Stockley-Putnam's ($1.50). Farming in Rhodesia-an English master ruling in solitude over a horde of native "boys" with others of his kind living some miles away for his only neighbors. To such a farm-master, who is her husband, comes an Englishwoman to find that he no longer cares much for her. Slowly the tentacles of intrigue wind about them and their neighbors. She wins back her husband's love, only to learn that one of her neighbors with a sensual wife has been made a cuckold, and that her husband...
Granted that the most uncomfortable and absurd costume in the world is evening dress, the men can still afford to retort: "Isn't that just like a woman?" This misguided Englishwoman proceeds on the absurd premise that people want to dress comfortably. If comfort were the prime object of top hats and stiff shirts, they would give place at once to loin cloths and beads. Ever since garments have risen to the dignity of clothes, they have been ornaments first, and conveniences second; and if they fail in their first function, modern men can console themselves with the reflection that...
...gives much the same performance as he did in Aren't We All, the delightful comedy which These Charming People vainly tries to reproduce. Mr. Maude has slighter material and therefore acts harder, a somewhat obvious device. Better even than he, was Edna Best. She is a young Englishwoman here for the first time. She is unorthodox, vaguely reminiscent of the music halls, and amazingly important in a steadily unimportant evening...