Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Named as if in competition with the Communist International, the Dance International was conceived about six months ago by a wide-eyed, energetic young woman from Richmond, Va., Louise Branch, who runs a book shop in Manhattan and is secretary to famed Sculptor Malvina Hoffman. She thought it would be nice to have something like Olympic Games in dancing, to bring world artists in that medium together for the sake of Peace. Miss Hoffman, who has sculped native dancers in Asia, Africa and the South Seas, thought so too. During the summer Miss Branch and Miss Hoffman traveled...
...Princess Caetani (née Cora Antinori), who is also a granddaughter of Egisto P. Fabbri, partner of the first J. P. Morgan. It was not inappropriate, therefore, last week when Princess Caetani appeared at Manhattan's St. Regis Hotel with Mrs. Harrison ("World's Best Dressed Woman") Williams in tow, to display unique yarns and fabrics developed in Italy by the great firm of Snia Viscosa and soon to be offered...
...Picasso and his wife: "I was reading he was listening and his eyes were wide open and then suddenly his wife Olga Picasso got up and said she would not listen she would go away she said. What's the matter, we said, I do not know that woman she said and left. Pablo said go on reading. I said no you must go after your wife, he said oh I said oh. and he left and until this year ... we did not see each other again but now he has left his wife and we have seen each...
...Horse, is a scrambled modernization of the tale of Troy, complete with radio broadcasts, scenes in night clubs, pacifist demonstrations. In it Troilus is cast as a kind of star quarterback; the siege is a cross between a football game and a marathon dance; Cressida is a modern young woman whose wisecracks seem not quite so up-to-date; Pandarus is a Wall Street sophisticate; the Horse is a symbol whose exact significance cannot be determined from the text...
...Sears rented a room for his servant in a boarding house nearby sent Grouard there for "a good rest " Grouard never left the room. Last week when Landlady Theresa Harr found her boarder unconscious, she called two doctors: they told her that Alfred Grouard was: 1) dying. 2) a woman. Police identified her as one Lucy Hall, but no one knew what had become of the $16,000 Sears had paid her in 14 years...