Search Details

Word: misogynists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Eustis, a sternly God-fearing farmer of middle age, had confessed the murder of Beulah Ross, the sexy teenager who ran away with him for an illicit two-week idyll. But when Parker Nowell took Farmer Eustis' case, that changed matters a bit. Lawyer Nowell was a sour misogynist but he was also a brilliant courtroom tactician who "never took a case unless it was hopeless, and it was a long way from hopeless" when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime of Passion | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Grain of Dust. Though the father of five daughters, Perkins became a mild misogynist in his dealings with fussy "lady writers" and used to complain wryly of their demands. One of them, whose anonymity he carefully preserved, telephoned him once to say that her cat John Keats was dying and could Perkins get a veterinarian? Another lady author of a book on. Swedish massage horrified him by asking him "just to feel of the muscles of my abdomen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Literary Midwife | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...Dean's Office which excludes Radcliffe girls from a club by requiring it to have 100 percent Harvard membership. This philosophy fails to consider either the statistical inferiority of Radcliffe, or the obvious success of such virtually spliced groups as the orchestras. It is a backward-looking, over-pessimistic, misogynist, and utterly pernicious doctrine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Woman's Place | 3/24/1950 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 8, 1947 | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Paul Sack, | Title: Network, Founded by Crimson, Finds Sex Has Radio Appeal, Severs Link to Breakfast Daily by Name Change to W HRV | 4/25/1947 | See Source »

Previous | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | Next