Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mathilde von Freytag-Loringhoven, who taught Kurwenal, is a motherly woman who looks something like Napoleon, with wisps of hair on her broad forehead, squinting eyes, a huge nose. She has trained many a dog, written many an article on the soul life of animals. Boldly she called scholars to "expose" her work, boasting that Kurwenal would perform when she was out of sight and earshot. Müller, Wulf, Plate and others went to her Weimar home to scoff, stayed to be yapped...
...just as people in groups of four tended to appear in all his dreams. Only the Christian symbol of the Trinity fails to conform to this system of fours, and Dr. Jung believes that the unconscious mind therefore tends to augment it with a fourth element. This is probably woman-the anima, or earth mother; although Dr. Jung points out that the element of evil, or the devil, is also excluded from the God-symbol, in which it might logically take part. At this point Dr. Jung excuses himself, declaring: "The church, I assume, has to invalidate any attempt...
Susan and God. Gertrude Lawrence as a strong-minded woman suffering from an overdose of Buchmanism (TIME...
Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary James Roosevelt boarded the S. S. Manhattan to bid farewell to Joseph Patrick Kennedy, off for his new post as U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. A young woman flounced up to him, sighed: "I've never kissed a Roosevelt and I've always wanted to." Secretary James bent down, turned a cheek, blushed as she kissed him. Swept away by the crowd, she shouted: "I think you're wonderful. I think your father is wonderful. All the Roosevelts are wonderful...
...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...