Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Traditionally Queen Farida should have remained in her father's house in the suburbs throughout this ceremony, but "unique" is a young woman of advanced ideas. She not only peeked at her own wedding through a carved grill but afterward posed for her photograph as Queen, a shocking breach of Moslem custom, doubly shocking because Her Majesty not only was photographed but posed unveiled! The moment she was married she should have heavily veiled herself, and Court officials desperately maintained that she did, but Chicago Tribune's, Alex Small was among those who saw otherwise, cabled: "Farida wore...
...Every man, woman and child (on the average) in the nation suffers ten days of incapacity annually...
...good-looking woman osteopath of Miami tossed the subject of "mercy deaths" into the news again last week by poisoning her incurably sick daughter Barbara and then trying to kill herself. In a typical note Dr. Frances A. Tuttle tried to explain: "Barbara is sick. . . . I don't want her to stay behind and suffer. . . . I am too tired and sick to hold...
...TIME, Oct. 4) dined & wined 150 strong on the second anniversary of the Duke of Windsor's accession as Edward VIII. Said the round-faced Rev. Robert Anderson Jardine, who married the Duke and Mrs. Simpson: "I am convinced in my heart that if ever there was a woman who could have sat on the throne of England. . . ." The ecstatic listeners here drowned his speech with cries of "Hear, hear!" "Thank...
...contains a dozen long narrative passages that stand out like detached stories. Its characters are stylized social types rather than conventional realistic portraits: Ben Coventry, blinded during the War, generous, humane, intelligent, helpless, is a symbol of sightless aristocracy that cannot provide social leadership. John Hargedon, the hard-pressed, woman-chasing policeman, is a symbol of leaderless strength and courage that wastes itself. Ben Coventry lives in seclusion in his Beacon Street house, breaks with his class when the amorous wife of an old friend guides him to her house at night, slowly recovers his balance only...