Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thomas Job, in dramatizing Bar Chester Towers, has altered the storytelling, removed the bite, like the gentlemen who dramatized Pride and Prejudice, Madame Bovary. Trollope's Barchester Towers smacks appreciative lips over the pettiness of an English cathedral town, controlled by Mrs. Proudie, a mean woman and a real woman, wife of its weak-minded bishop...
...Copperman Louis Shattuck Gates and many and many another manager of major corporations. Even the rank & file clustered at the common tables will read like a Directory of Directors. And through the rich blue haze of New Waldorf cigars, the nation's manufacturers will listen to the first woman ever asked to address them-Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Novelist Lewis' wife...
Gaunt, bony Mr. Culbertson combines the hottest temper in a hot-tempered business with the exquisite politeness of a cinematic headwaiter. One day in 1923 he met a young woman whose skill at bridge so astounded him that he asked her to marry him. Soon Mr. Culbertson started to write about bridge as well as play it. Mrs. Culbertson gave lessons to anyone who could afford her remarkable fee of $40 an hour. Together they made about $30,000 a year...
Handsome, big-chested, lusty Antony, easily bored, with ten mistresses to Caesar's one, seemed an even less likely fellow for any woman to hold for long. Cleopatra held him nearly 13 years. For her he deserted his brilliant wife Fulvia, his beautiful wife Octavia, risked a revolution to crown Cleopatra Queen of Egypt, risked the good opinion of posterity by making their three children his heirs, ignoring his four in Rome. Finally he divorced Octavia at the risk of war, the war which finished...
...trouble in showing Cleopatra as ''the shrewdest and most intelligent woman of her time." She roughed it with Caesar during their hard pressed military campaign, was a model of reserve as his mistress in Rome. With Antony she played the lavish wanton, outdid him in everything from drinking to horseplay. Deserted on the eve of bearing his twins, she greeted him three years later as though he had only been out for a walk. But her price was the old Pharaoh empire, his divorce from Octavia. This last move, says Ludwig, marked the point where her emotions began...