Word: lionessed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gabriela Mistral, handsome, 56-year-old Chilean poetess (Los Sonetos de la Muerte), found herself still the lioness of social Stockholm a fortnight after receiving the Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 26) from towering King Gustaf. Poetess Mistral found Sweden's social democracy "a century ahead of everything else," but prepared to move on to another, gentler climate. Last a resident of Brazil's fair-&-warmer Petropolis, she would now head for California's Los Angeles, hopes to find a home, an office, and settle down...
Outside Kruger National Park, South Africa's famed wildlife sanctuary, prowled a white man and his two black servants, looking for lions. Having no rifle, they set a steel trap-against the law-came back next day to find a full-grown lioness caught by the neck, roaring in agony. Not daring to approach her, they squatted to debate while the frantic animal panted. In the evening the white man decided to wait for the lioness to die, then collect the skin. They waited ten days before the shrunken, weakened beast relaxed and the skinning could begin...
Captain Alec S. Cunningham-Reid, M.P., divorced Social Lioness Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley in 1940 and sued for half her $400,000 annual income. One thing he could not forget about their honeymoon was her insistence that they share her wealth because "no decent woman likes to have a man live with her in charity." Later that year, M.P.s accused the Captain of visiting Doris Duke Cromwell in Honolulu to duck the Blitz. He said he went to evacuate 500 British children. Minister of Information Brendan Bracken called it "beachcombing in Honolulu...
...OCDiva to Fiorello LaGuardia's OCDemon of the Office of Civilian Defense, she had contributed the lioness' share to the air of bustling nonsense which has characterized OCD. This week Mayor LaGuardia, by promising to resign as head man of OCD, somewhat cleared the air and quieted the room. But no sooner had he done so than Eleanor Roosevelt set the shouts and murmurs going again louder than ever. The suspicion that the OCDiva regarded OCD as her particular plaything was deepened by the appearance of her newly summoned playmates...
...fascination to literate housewives. There are three women in his life, all at once. One is his Bostonian fiancée Agnes, niece of General Wicks, who has charge of New Orleans. Another is a ruddy whoremistress who uses imitation gold dust in her hair and looks like a lioness. The third is a depraved Irish-French Baroness whose very touch, one is led to believe, can drive a man out of his right mind (she dabbles in sorcery to boot...