Word: woman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Profound and comprehensive advice given by an aged woman-hater to his nephew : "Shun the blondes, avoid the brunettes and fly from all the others...
...Cambridge University Miss Helen Magill, Ph. D., who is a student there, declares that a woman can now do almost all that a man can in all departments, classical and scientific. Almost all the university and a number of the college lectures are open to women. Miss Magill thinks that for post-graduate study in this country, Michigan University is to be preferred for historical and political science, Cornell and the Institute of Technology for the natural sciences, and Harvard annex for the classics and mathematics. In England, Oxford is to be recommended for English literature and philology, Cambridge...
...possible. "Forever and a Day" is far better than the average novel, which merely introduces the reader to a few characters, who serve to amuse him for a summer afternoon. In the life of Robert Somers and Cora Pembroke, the characters of a true man and a true woman are presented to the reader...
...glass had caused the friend on my right to discover to me the intricacies of a prolonged flirtation of half an hour with Miss L. the evening before, and I wondered then, as I always do, that it takes three times as long to describe a flirtation with a woman as the flirtation itself lasts; in fact, I know one man who has been a whole year telling me about a woman whom he never saw more than four times; he knows far more about her than he does about certain subjects which he has been working at for years...
...said he had often been in the unpleasant predicament where it was necessary to accompany a woman to some place of amusement with another man, and he had experienced great difficulty in arranging the manner of sitting together. "If you put the woman in first," said he, "and let the other fellow sit between you she does not like it." I wondered why, but said nothing. "And if you put the woman in the middle," he continued, "it bothers her to keep up the conversation; she is obliged to do all the 'running,' because if you talk...