Word: subjected
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This regular event, kept going by her active and admiring set of women friends, bears the clear stamp of Eleanor Roosevelt's character. Ever willing to take an active part in everything, she herself puts on an act, although even mention of its subject matter is forbidden. More characteristic still, she is in no way offended by personal references...
...Louis no local woman has been the subject of more newspaper columns or more shocked social chitchat than lively, red-haired Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, whose father was a Baptist minister and whose brother is a Judge of Missouri's Supreme Court. Until three years ago few St. Louisans knew much more about Mrs. Muench than that she lived comfortably in fashionable Westminster Place with her respected physician-husband and that she once operated a fashionable midtown dress shop that catered to society trade...
...years ago until he lately joined the Jesuit weekly, America, as columnist. As a guest preacher, he mounted the pulpit of Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral the Sunday before Christmas and, conscious of the superb sounding-board which that great fane afforded him, sermonized on a subject which he had half-whimsically, half-seriously pondered. Said Father Feeney...
...Women (by Clare Boothe; Max Gordon, producer) is calculated to give the Men two of the most shockingly informative hours of their lives and is so clever that few women would willingly miss it. Its cast of 35 is entirely feminine and its subject is exactly what its title suggests. Halfway through scene i, Playwright Boothe makes a distinction between Women and Females. Mary Haines (Margalo Gillmore), a gracious and home-loving blonde with one husband, two children and a heart filled with anxiety about reaching the shady side of 30, is a woman. Most of the rest...
...When a woman comes to the microphone and tells the story of her son, who, although she is convinced of his innocence, is accused of counterfeiting, her address to the microphone is not a performance. When she breaks down, her agonized cries are not subject to criticism. No question of technique is involved to determine whether they filter through the microphone with a tone of heart-breaking sincerity...