Word: woman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Temperamental little President Chiang Kai-shek of Nationalist China, whose waist is as slim and mind as changeable as a woman's, changed his mind every other day last week, about the civil war he is waging with the so-called "People's Army" (TIME, Nov.11...
...beautiful? Is she thin, fat, dropsical, anemic, senile, kittenish or reptilian? Last week Manhattanites asked these questions about Maria Lani, French cinemactress. For in the august Brummer Gallery was an exhibition of 51 representations of this one woman. She was "done" in marble, metal, paint, on a platter, on a piece of glass...
...that today they would be dead, were still alive last week but uncomfortable at the imminence of death. They are suffering from radium poisoning contracted while painting luminous watch dials for the U. S. Radium Corp. (TIME, June 4, 1928 et seq). The company, after law suits, gave each woman $10,000 and expenses...
...Owensboro, Ky., a woman telephoned the police in the night, said a man was peeping in her window, that she was holding him at bay with a pistol. Rushing to the house, police found a cow, munching her cud, looking in the window...
These are typical Arlen tales: A young would-be man-about-town finds himself the protector, against his inclinations, of a fascinating girl's honor. A fascinating girl fascinates three young men who are all agog to be fascinated. A fascinating older woman fascinates an older man and then leaves him, fascinatingly, for his good. A fascinating but somewhat irregular lady of doubtful age fascinates a young man, re-fascinates one of her old beaux, who steps in to rescue the fascinated young man?...