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...rage. I melt. I burn." In these smoldering terms, Germaine Greer, the muliebral but mildly misogamist priestess of Women's Lib, announced in London's Sunday Times that she had fallen in love with an unidentified male. Elaborating on her feelings, she continued: "I also simper and maunder. I am no better than an imbecile. I have collapsed into gaping idiocy. Give me excess of it, that the appetite may sicken and so die. I am treacherous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 17, 1972 | 7/17/1972 | See Source »

...fair Catholic, Mafalda. Overlooking the fact that the occasion demanded such attention, the people, conscious only that the reprobate bachelor Prince appeared with a pretty girl of the right age and the same rank, fell violently to gossiping of an imminent betrothal. But the Prince of Wales remained his misogamist self...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Return Visit | 6/9/1924 | See Source »

...hard-boiled misogamist," for all that he knocked a goal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View with Alarm: Jul. 23, 1923 | 7/23/1923 | See Source »

Recently a Viennese merchant bachelor was ejected from his domicile by the commission. In his wrath he brought an action into the supreme court, but lost his case. " They gave me a fortnight to find a wife," complained the embittered misogamist. "A fortnight, when I am to be married all my life! Unless I go and sleep under the bridges, I am to marry the first woman that comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRIA: Austria | 4/14/1923 | See Source »

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