Word: misogynistic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RENO RENDEZVOUS - Leslie Ford - Farrar & Rinehart ($2). Two daring and brutal murders are cleared up by Colonel Primrose and misogynist Sergeant Buck. Another of Miss Ford's first-person stories, with her usual good plot and dialogue...
...hard-bitten soldier, Clavers had come back to Scotland from the Low Countries to see his dying mother, and at her behest stayed on to serve Charles II. His inglorious job was to uphold the unpopular Established Church, put down the dissenting Covenanters with a heavy hand. A misogynist, Clavers was faithful only to his duty. Nearly everyone hated...
Handsome Lance Corporal Arthur Charles Mortimer, an outstanding misogynist of the British Army who especially hated female cyclists, was held to be sane by a court in Winchester last week, sentenced to be hanged. In the circumstances Mrs. Violet Van der Elst, wealthy and eccentric British widow who usually protests in person every hanging in the United Kingdom (TIME, April 15), was expected to skip that of Mortimer...
...offending article was far from unfriendly. "The most puzzling problem regarding the life of the Prince of Wales," it read, "is that of his celibacy. Why, it is asked, the Prince being on the threshold of 40, has he never married? It has been said the Prince is a misogynist. Nothing is more false. The Prince is of healthy customs and has given superabundant proofs of his taste for the fair...
...meantime, being a misogynist and rather shy, he remains absorbed in his rhododendrons, which are sprouting undaunted beneath the new skyscrapers. As to said rhododendrons: in order to be sure that their colors will not differ in the slightest degree from that of the interior of the new Houses, he has carefully prepared a suitable quantity of the Right Sort of paint for their emergent petals. This goes to show that, after all is said and done, the little fellow is indeed a staunch friend of the Corporation...