Word: maleness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Florida City there was a flurry of excitement just before the President shifted from train to motor car. A male figure in brown sweater and dark trousers was seen lurking by the road. Secret Service and police quickly threw a cordon around the President and beat the thick scrub for the lurker. He escaped, nothing happened. The President entered his car and rode 140 miles over the trestles built by the late Rail Tycoon Henry M. Flagler to lace the Florida Keys, converted by PWA from a defunct railroad into a $3,600,000 motor highway. At Key West, which...
...human species the male is more logical than the female. He is also more zoological. Beyond that the contrast ceases, for both are descended from the ape, both think they could write a great book if they only had the time, and both think they could act if they only had the opportunity. The following are typical extracts from any prominent producer's correspondence...
Hailed as the No. i male cinema discov ery of 1938 for his performance as Mickey Borden in Four Daughters, Actor John Garfield is a blunt-featured young product of New York City's East Side and The Bronx. A problem child, he was sent at twelve to a school run by Angelo Patri, who allowed him to concentrate on dram atics and English...
Married to Michael shortly before he sailed in 1913 to become British vice consul at Baltimore, she suddenly gave her motto a new focus. From then on she resisted her Protestant upbringing and Michael. It is this part of the story which is enough to scare male readers about literate wives and mistresses-a recital of love affairs, bedroom lyricism, plate throwing, tongue lashings, a self-righteous exposure of everything from Michael's lack of ambition to his dirty hairbrushes...
Properly, such human documents should be reviewed by a psychiatrist. No one else could satisfy the reader's main curiosity, namely, what motives of exhibitionism, just grievance or resentment against a male-dominated world prompt the writings of such a book. Madeleine Boyd does a thorough job in messing up the portrait of the elegant husband. But she herself does not come through looking as though she were dressed for church...