Word: menfolks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with anxiety about reaching the shady side of 30, is a woman. Most of the rest of The Women are females, belonging to Manhattan's restaurant and rotogravure set. Disclosed in bathrooms, ladies' rooms, beauty parlors and maternity wards, safe from the eyes and ears of their menfolk, they talk, as men never hear them, about clothes, nail polish, money ("a woman's best protection is a little money of her own"), sex ("I'm just a frozen asset," says the play's lone virgin), nursing babies ("ouch! he's got jaws like...
...wenches' joy did not exceed that of the Rhineland menfolk. In Cologne the reaction of a dignified German burgher on his way by street car to a funeral in crape arm band and black stovepipe hat was significant. On hearing the glorious rumor, he swung off the street car and bustled toward Cathedral Square, where the first troops were expected to arrive, puffing: "The first soldier I get my hands on is going to get as cockeyed-drunk at my expense as I did when I was a soldier in 1914-and I'm going to get cockeyed...
...Jane Austen's quiet, domestic observations was Sir Walter Scott, who declared: "I can do the big bowwow myself: but the exquisite touch ... is denied to me." Most 20th Century playgoers lean toward the big bowwow. Accordingly, they might reasonably be expected to yawn at characters whose menfolk's tights and neckwear make them look like bullfrogs about to spring, whose every silly sentence twists toward rarefied romance, and who employ three acts and much superfluous palaver in the basically simple process of going out and getting married. Nevertheless, all concerned in the dramatization do manage to supply...
Most women have been working outside of the home in the past few years, giving their menfolk more money for themselves. Now through the depression these women have been thrown out of work, so of course she is a parasite. The other type who has had a half a dozen children, doing housework, painting, paperhanging and all the jobs her husband should have been doing. Being tied down to a family does not include golfing, night life or pretty clothes. Johnnie or Lucy needs shoes or medicine. The man of today has an idea that a certain amount of money...
...whole truth of the matter is our menfolk have gotten into bad company. They want divorce and then remarry and then want the moon. The menfolk better wake up. I for one will teach my children to have no children. Just be selfish like their father...