Word: woman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...parvenu whose Mayfair mansion stands near that of the daughter of George V, King & Emperor. They remember the bathing-suit parties in the swimming pool on the roof, Hatry's passion for ornate bathrooms even at his office, the fact that he nibbled his food like a woman...
...declare that, although both Pope Pius XI and Queen Helena of Italy have condemned short skirts and bare arms, results have been meager if not lacking. "However, who can doubt," concluded fulsome Prefect Lops, "that an order from our beloved Duce would be obeyed UNHESITATINGLY by every woman in Italy...
...referring to the particular moment, she could have said nothing truer. Actresses come to Boston and find so many old friends. They stretched in a spiral queue from her door at the Hollis Theatre Monday night. One woman said: "Mrs. Fiske, my baby's just outside. I wonder if you'd like to come...
...Guider Park, Brooklyn, one Matteo Aurierno, 26, was found wandering in the dark, bleeding from deep stabs in his neck and hands. At the police station he related that, while strolling, he was thrown down and slashed by a "personable" woman who then fled, chortling...
...depiction of War, the novel bears comparison with its best predecessors. But it is in the hero's perhaps unethical quitting of the battle line to be with the woman whom he has gotten with child that it achieves its greatest significance. Love is more maligned in literature than any other emotion, by romantic distortion on the one hand, by carnal diminution on the other. But Author Hemingway knows it at its best to be a blend of desire, serenity, and wordless sympathy. His man and woman stand incoherently together against a shattered, dissolving world. They express their feelings...