Word: mannishness
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Esquire ("The Magazine for Men") was established as a quarterly in October 1933. Its sexy cartoons, mannish stories and articles, big pages, colorful men's fashion drawings, found instant favor with a large and admiring public. Its second issue appeared on a monthly basis. Last month Esquire reached a circulation peak, sent some 440,000 copies to readers throughout the land. Last week this big, slick publishing success branched out with a speculative journalistic sideline. The trade was informed, through the medium of a full-page advertisement in Editor & Publisher, that "The Magazine for Men" was entering the newspaper...
...paved for her by Binnie Barnes (There's Always Tomorrow), Merle Oberon (Folies Bergere) and Wendy Barrie (It's a Small World). In private life also Miss Lanchester is the wife of Henry VIII (Charles Laughton). Although he is known for his plump effeminacy, she is mannish in dress. She journeyed from England to play Clickett Micawber's slavey in David Copperfield, a portrait mostly left on the cutting-room floor; appeared briefly in Naughty Marietta. As a child she refused to be educated at a young ladies' seminary, was the only girl at a small...
...Suppose no one asked a question. What would the answer be?" With this proposition, impressionistic, word-jumbling Gertrude Stein, most famed of U. S. literary expatriates, greeted the first corps of U. S. newshawks she had seen in 31 years. Author Stein, hearty, hefty, dressed in a coarse, mannish suit and thick woolen stockings, was sailing up New York Harbor to begin a lecture tour. Over her close-cropped grey hair was pulled a tweed deer-stalker's cap. To the disappointment of newshawks, she gave an intelligible interview: "I do talk as I write but you can hear...
Three years ago Traveler Seabrook told the U. S. something about Timbuctoo's No. 1 Citizen. Père Yakouba; last week he published the old man's informal but official biography. Written in Author Seabrook's usual man-to-mannish style, The White Monk of Timbuctoo is a racily sympathetic account of an unusual career. Devout Catholics will read it, if at all, as a warning; plain readers, as vicarious adventure...
...Lens, near Lille, France another case of metamorphosed hermaphroditism came to light last week. The affair began last Christmas when the parish priest noticed that Alice Henriette Acces, 16, member of the girls' choir, had imperceptibly changed from hoyden to boor. Henriette had a thin mustache. Her voice was mannish. And, were she dressed in boy's clothes, she would be indistinguishable from the bantlings of the mine where her father worked...