Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Schultz") Flegenheimer if he had been allowed to conduct his prosecution in 1935; Murray Irwin Gurfein, 30, brainy onetime Editor of Harvard's Law Review; Barent Ten Eyck, 34 only gentile of the lot, a suave, bald Princetonian socialite, translator of two Scandinavian novels. Fifteen men and one woman rounded out the Dewey legal staff. The woman, Mrs. Eunice Hunton Carter, a young Negro lawyer and social worker schooled by Smith and Fordham and married to a Harlem dentist, was to prove one of his ablest trackers of prostitution and policy racketeers. Ten crack accountants were picked to search...
...undergraduate rooms in one of the seven houses which very roughly correspond to Cambridge colleges. I had a bed-room, sitting room and bathroom. The sitting room had central-heating and a telephone. There was no nonsense about the telephone either. An undergraduate could call his "St. Louis woman" or anyone he liked at any hour of the day or night without any more bother than from his own home. Every set of rooms in the houses had a dial telephone connected directly with the town exchange. The bathroom had every modern convenience except a bath, which is regarded...
Since 1933, Britain's dusty little Saturday Review was published by the country's reputedly wealthiest woman. Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, widow of a shipping tycoon. Lady Houston considered herself a Conservative, but made her otherwise mediocre weekly memorable for the blatancy of its attacks on Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, who she believed were plotting to sell out the British nation to the Bolsheviks. A plump, imperious person, voluble to an epic degree, Lady Houston died last month, her age, which she had kept secret, probably 65 to 70. Since no will...
Alighting from a train at Ogden, Utah attired in his Rear Admiral's undress uniform, Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was taken for a stationmaster, passed up by the officials sent to greet him. In Kansas City's Union Station, a woman had handed him a lost purse. Said Admiral Byrd: "Begins to look as if I'll have to do something about...
...ascetics. Everywhere there were symptoms of an appalling state of malnutrition: sties, boils and pimples, cases of jaundice and of scab, scales between the fingers, scurvy of the gums, dry abscesses on necks and behind ears." At first there were ways of getting enough food: if you were a woman, and young, or if you were rich enough to buy from smugglers. Author van der Meersch implies that the Belgians were comparatively well off, had plenty to eat. German policy in Belgium was conciliatory, in occupied France, punitive...