Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Democrat Kennedy then gave out a letter in which he had turned down an unnamed U. S. woman's application forwarded by Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. "For many years this Embassy has had the privilege of presenting between 20 and 30 American ladies each year, and the Court is still disposed to receive as many American ladies as in the past," wrote Ambassador Kennedy. "The number of American ladies presented, however, has on the average been twice as great as the number of ladies presented by all other diplomatic missions put together. . . . I cannot see that...
...schools and colleges. Concentrating on high schools, it has made the greatest headway in Chicago, which today has some 30 junior units in public schools. But in a score of other places the War Department has been rebuffed. Last week it was smartly slapped by an 82-year-old woman in Kenosha...
There's Always a Woman (Columbia) builds up around rambunctious, banjo-eyed Joan Blondell a strong case for more blondes in the detective business. Skidding along on her intuition through a mystery that has as much mirth as murder, Private Detective Blondell bumps pertly from clue to clue, lands on the solution while the police and her sleuthing cinema husband (Melvyn Douglas) are still fumbling around...
Following the lead of The Thin Man (TIME, July 9, 1934), There's Always a Woman puts on a cheerful but exciting air of informality by making crime detection safe for the younger married set, plays prankish variations on the traditional theme that the police (Scotland Yard excepted) are always baffled. Best scene: Detective Blondell undergoing a third degree at the hands of her worsted cop competitors, ending up a fresh & dewy pink in a roomful of wilted bluecoats...
...even more poignant cry for information on this touchy subject (see p. 57) rose in Manhattan last week. At a discussion on marriage, conducted by the New York Province of College Catholic Clubs, a young woman asked: "Is the rhythmic cycle [of infertility] reliable in the average woman?" Replied Obstetrician Frederick Walter Rice: "The rhythmic cycle is the only recourse left to the Catholic. It will be only when physicians can give data about each woman in regard to the cycle that Catholics can live freely within the moral...