Word: misogynists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Misogynist. In Philadelphia, a cockatoo named Scratch-Patch picked open the lock of his cage (where he lived with six lady cockatoos), moved to another cage, where he pried open the door and moved in with eight bachelor parrots...
...Network's prize anecdotes comes out of a coed forum on coeducation of this period. A Harvard man had just finished declaring that women get in the way and that he himself was a misogynist when his Cliffedwelling opponent chirped archly into the microphone, "Then why don't you get your hand off my knee...
...into a ... rage and stamp on its head"). She commiserated with Mrs. Hoare, whose daughter had married a Dutchman and borne nothing but girls ("It's something to do with Princess Juliana, I always think," said Mrs. Hoare). She won over the snooty servants and even conquered Oxonian Misogynist Professor Carton, who had hitherto believed that all bluestockings wore raincoats and sang in the Bach choir. After 300 such leisurely pages Author Thirkell ties up the loose ends in a neat bow, marries the right people to the right sort, saves the family mansion and forgives...
...Elisabet used her beauty to shoehorn her way into art classes (strictly stag, up to then) and to blast men's balance. Perhaps her greatest conquest was Germany's ace misogynist, atrabilious old Arthur Schopenhauer. By the time she had worked on him a week he was babbling utter fatuities. "By God," he gloated, "I almost feel like a married man!" When Elisabet reminded him that, once his polysyllabic frock coat was stripped off, his animadversions against women were those of any Junker or farm hand, all he could manage was to blame it on his mother...
...rotund Mr. Moore, innocency personified, it is Senator Oliver P Loganberry, "The Watchdog of the Senate," detailed to New Orleans to investigate the machinations of the Louisiana Purchasing Company. Boss Man William Gaxton is anxious to prevent the Senator from making his investigation and attempts to sabotage shy, misogynist Oliver by filling him with "Mississippi River Water," planting Vera Zorina on his lap, and then snapshooting the scene. Baffled by Loganberry's purity, Gaxton tries again, plants Irene Bordoni in Oliver's bed, but the Senator tops his enemies again by marrying the buxom Madame Bordelaise. Louisiana triumphs...