Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: For your selection of Mrs. Simpson for Woman of the Year, congratulations; history furnishes an outstanding precedent...
...past few days he has been inspecting musty back numbers of TEMPUS-newsmagazine, a smart publication in Roma of about 19 or 20 centuries ago, and he was interested to note that for their issue for the year 30 B.C. or thereabouts they had the picture of Cleopatra as Woman of the Year...
From some of the issues immediately before and after the first of the year he learned that there had been three prominent entries for place as man of the year with strong boosters for each of them. There was Cleopatra, who it would seem was a woman of unusual charm; there was her boy friend, Mark Antony, so fascinated by her that he was neglecting affairs of public business to woo her; and there was one Novresibus, an officeholder who had just been re-elected in a landslide in which he had received 99 & 44/100 percent of the votes...
...work in color photography, "God's Country and The Woman" is unexcelled, but the plot, while appropriate to the scenery, is weak. It is the old, old tale of the valiant young girl who for reasons of her own carries on a man's job against tremendous odds, only to break down and become a woman again when the right man comes along...
...Country." George Brent, as the man in question, not only brings out the eternal feminine in her but frustrates her competitor when he tries to block up the river. The fact that the competitor is Mr. Brent's brother only makes his sacrifice for the woman he loves all the more noble...