Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indelicate scratching; he still does, but with his wife's body. The husband has to fit a dress on a friend, and the wife gets indignantly repulsed for interfering. The husband goes into the bathroom and comes out saying, "How inconvenient." The wife gets arrested for walking into a woman's wash room in a hotel. The wife has to tell the husband that he's going to have a baby. Similar situations of varying degrees of crudity and subtlety, with a preponderance of the former, make up the subject-matter...
Constance Cummings, a handsome, vigorous young woman, seems to enjoy the male impersonation, slapstick, and rough-house required for her. But since there is little room for anything else, this play can scarcely make or break her as a straightforward actress. For her sake it is to be hoped that "If I Were You" does not prove too successful. Not to mention a free-for-all including her, her wife, and the Irish maid, she is forced to kneel on the floor with the man lying on top of her, back to back and beat on the floor with...
Sued for Divorce. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham, tall, blonde "flying mother," onetime horse trainer in British Kenya, first woman to fly solo east-to-west across the Atlantic; by Film Producer Mansfield Markham; in London...
...least ought to see Mussolini here. I'm so disappointed because he won't be present when I'm singing ." "I'm sorry too," said the stranger, "but I have to go to Rome for " then added, "you must be almost the only woman who does not know Mussolini's face." Pauly apologized, said she didn't know much about politicians. "Brava! Brava!" exclaimed II Duce, "that is a true woman. Women should not bother themselves with politics; their business is in the home...
...malice, snobbishness, impatience, heartlessness and occasional humdrum housewifely humor, her private letters make a lively book, packed with characterizations that, a novelist could envy. Thus she describes the conversation of her diplomatic rival, the clumsy, ill-favored wife of the Austrian Ambassador: "Do you know the kind of woman who always wants to be the centre of social interest? She is afraid of mice, she loves cats, she tumbles down, she burns herself, she upsets her tea on her dress-all this happened in her house the other day. . . . Still, these are graceful blunders. The most serious seems...