Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chiang, who "wears the pants" (see cut, p. 18) in the Chinese Government to a greater extent than any woman since the death of the dread Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi, wrote this hospitalized in Nanking after her car had skidded last week into a ditch on the Shanghai road, constantly traveled by herself and the Generalissimo. "Is it not the irony of fate that I nearly met death by an act of God," wrote pious Mme Chiang who converted her husband to Christianity, "while the Japanese have been trying to assassinate me by bombs ever since the beginning...
...gave her small lyric soprano parts at the Charlottenburg Opera. After her accidental discovery of C in altissimo, Soprano Sack perfected her coloratura. When, as a member of the able Dresden Opera, she sang in the world première of Richard Strauss's Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman), and later in a revival of his Ariadne Auf Naxos, Composer Strauss wrote in extra fioriture for her nimble vocal chords...
Besides mentioning one of her four beaus by name (Lord Robin Innes-Ker), Mme Alda reveals that "my marriage to Gatti was frankly, on my part at least, a marriage after the European pattern; a sensible arrangement between a man and a woman who liked and respected each other. . . ." Her opinion of her successor, Dancer Rosina Galli: "Like me, she had a rather pretty face but too fat a figure." Alda declares that, when she made ready to divorce Gatti-Casazza, she was told that her contract at the Metropolitan would be allowed quietly to expire. Astute, she obtained from...
...sanity, a note which is scarcely justified by what has gone before. A great newspaper owner, a frank caterer to mob passions, is the chief antagonist; while two brothers, a manufacturer and a one-paper journalist, do battle for liberalism and pacifism, but draw their strength from a woman, their sister-in-law. There is something in the play of the old conflict of destruction versus creation with their usual symbols, a man and a woman...
Errol Flynn, God's gift to this puny human race, displays how the perfect man should disport himself when caught between the realism of a woman's world and the idealism of a life of complete social vapidity. Pursued by Joan Blondell, who is not over-subtle in her go-getting, Mr. Flynn knocks out Allan Jenkins, prize fighter extraordinary, fights in his place, and pursues his inconsequential way through the rest of the film...