Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confirmation came immediately from a Miss Phyllis Harrop, first British woman to escape. An anti-vice crusader attached to the Foreign Office, she told reporters in Chungking last week: "My houseboy was killed-bayoneted in the stomach. My [woman servant] was raped by three or four Japanese soldiers. . . . An Englishwoman I knew was first slashed in the face with a soldier's belt, then raped...
...circle began in the '20s. Maxim Litvinoff, who had married a plump, middle-class Englishwoman, set out to end the isolation which the Bolshevist Revolution had imposed on Russia. He delighted and confounded Englishmen with his bluntness, his cunning, his tenacity. At the Disarmament Conference in 1927 he surprised everyone by demanding, of all things, disarmament. "Propaganda," the delegates muttered. "It is propaganda," agreed Litvinoff. "Propaganda for peace." His pet idea was security for Russia through nonaggression. He gave and got promises to and from most of Russia's neighbors not to aggress...
Leslie Charles Bowyer Lin, whose father is a Chinese surgeon in Singapore, whose mother is an Englishwoman, whose small daughter (like himself) is a British subject, whose present wife is a U.S. citizen, last week awaited Senate action on a special bill the House had just passed to make him and daughter U.S. citizens. Would-be Citizen Lin is better known as Leslie Charteris, bemonocled creator of Simon Templar, "The Saint." ∙∙ In Minneapolis 37-year-old Theodor Broch, ex-Mayor of Narvik, applied for U.S. citizenship. Under Nazi sentence of death he escaped from Norway in June...
...Yugoslav, a Greek, a Hungarian, an Englishwoman, two Swedes, several Americans - and one Italian - sang an Italian opera in Manhattan one night last week. The assorted nationalities sang to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, who wore, as usual, a hair ribbon; to Thomas J. Watson of International Business Machines; to Orlando F. Weber, onetime head of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp.; to those sterling spinsters of Manhattan and Newport, R. I., the Misses Maude and Edith Wetmore; to yards of silk and satin; to hothouses of orchids, gardenias and camellias; to bushels of diamonds, emeralds and pearls. They also sang...
...soon grows distasteful, and needs continual replacement with something else." This maxim would sound serviceable to most modern designers of functional furniture. It was devised by devout, unlettered members of the communistic religious sect who called themselves Shakers. Kindled by the ardor of Ann Lee, a mystic Englishwoman who led a band of six men and two women to the U. S. in 1774, the Shakers took as their motto "Hands to work and hearts to God." They labored, shook away their sins, grew and flourished mainly in colonies in eastern New York and New England until...