Word: mannishly
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...Protestant family, she lives alone, ventures out seldom. "I have to save what energy I have for my work," she explains. Her one extravagance is Paris ("My excuse is to buy glass"), and twice a year she can be seen rambling around Montparnasse, a tiny figure in mannish tweeds puffing on French cigarettes...
Perhaps the most effective story is one that crosses satire and pitilessness in almost equal parts. In Under the Beech Tree, a mannish countrywoman who cares for nothing but the chase is suddenly confronted with the fresh carcass of a vixen. She imagines that the precious creature-the might-have-been mother of countless foxes-has been wantonly shot by her young nephew, and she collapses in a paroxysm of rage and grief...
...caliber automatic, looked and was dressed like a man. But to the cops' astonishment, the prisoner not only turned out to be a woman, but a person well known and respected in the neighborhood. The prisoner, wearing a coarse red jacket, and a stocking cap over a mannish bob, proved to be Dr. Nancy D. Campbell, 43, Phi Beta Kappa, graduate of Yale's Medical School and for the past 14 years a prominent Santa Fe physician...
Wearing a mannish hairdo, Joan Crawford plays the overneat Harriet Craig with sexy emphasis. As her thoroughly housebroken husband, Wendell Corey is careful never to drop ashes on the rugs, sit on the arm of the sofa, or put a damp glass on an end table. Besides riding herd on Corey, Joan bullies her servants, snipes at the inoffensive widow next door, tries to break up K.T. Stevens' romance with William Bishop. Her ineffectual villain'es come to a head when, to prevent her husband's going alone to Japan on business, she defames...
...married Elena Khrushchev, a handsome actress. The present Mrs. Malenkov turned from the stage to the schools. As director of Moscow University, she motors in a long black Zis (the U.S.S.R.'s copy of the Packard) from her husband's Kremlin quarters, dresses in severe, mannish suits, is served by two housemaids, rates an office with a thick Persian rug, a mahogany desk, a daily vaseful of roses, an ornate silver samovar...