Word: menfolk
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...women a prestige formerly denied them: France's top literary honor, the august Prix Goncourt, is reserved for male authors only. Last week, the 17 elderly French women writers who award the Prix Femina found their task too grisly, seemed about ready to leave prize-giving to the menfolk. "Life in today's novel," said one of the judges in an interview, "is twisted to eroticism. For instance, in Le Jeu et I'Enjeu [a recent French literary success] there is a revolting story. Two rats-you heard me -two rats fall upon a bed where...
...result, Banks argued, the movies generally are not offering the little woman "the type of emotional experience she wants, and anybody who thinks the menfolk in the family are going to the theater if she's opposed to the idea just isn't being realistic...
This week, weeping relatives crowded into Prague's police stations, trying to learn where their menfolk had been taken. The police sent many of the questioners out to Pankrac, Prague's biggest prison, which stands ominously on a hill overlooking the city...
Great Hopes. Business over, the menfolk went downstairs to the long tables loaded with fried chicken, beef pork meat loaf; white and sweet potatoes fixed every way-fried, mashed, baked and roasted; a variety of salads, vegetables, muts, cakes and pies. Everybody ate hearty, and what was left went home with the women...
Last week the bloodguilt fell upon all Gary, although where to lay the bitter assessment was disputed. Fifteen hundred aroused women banded together at seedy Seaman hall one night. They barred their menfolk from the building, resolved to march on City Hall four blocks away where the council was in session. On the way over, clots of men humbly joined them...