Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such niche could be found by the Curator of the Kremlin when it came time for my wreath-laying and it was only after several days of search that, quite by accident, a woman came forward who remembered the funeral of Paxton Hibben and it was she who finally led me to his grave in the cemetery of the ancient Novo-Devichi Convent on the outskirts of Moscow. LIONEL TOMPKINS...
...Embarked on neither a pleasure jaunt nor a cinema stunt, Actress Wong and 446 fellow passengers were en route to the U. S. For three weeks, they had been stranded in Honolulu by the shipping strike (TIME, Nov. 23). A few tourists, including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles out to the Matson liner Monterey, whose captain had refused to enter the harbor for fear of losing his crew. They left Hawaii...
...with freedom of the Press came last week when London newsdealers refused to handle the Christmas number of Esquire. Reason: it contains a dreary piece of pseudo-satire entitled "POPULAR YOUNG MATRON-Mr. Simpson's Daughter Only Proved the Generalization That Stupidity Is No Handicap to a Proper Woman." No character in this piece of obviously pure fiction remotely resembles anyone appertaining to the King's Mrs. Simpson...
...business four times and felt the need of a magic talisman wrote for "the head of a white weasel." A medicine show proprietor asked for something that he could exhibit as human tapeworms, explaining that the egg noodles he had been using swelled and lost their shape. A woman wanted "a picture of all animals in the animal kingdom from protozone [sic] to mammal as soon as possible." For a moth-proofing company Ward's made up salesmen's display kit's showing the growth stages of moths and how they eat fabric. The research laboratories...
...accompanied Napoleon into exile because his debts were so great he could go nowhere else. Swaggering, hypersensitive, jealous Caspar Gourgaud also went along because he had no other choice. General Henri Gratien Bertrand, Napoleon's Grand Marshal, tall, skinny and timid, "had the face of a middle-aged woman who had for some unexplained reason taken to side-burns." Humorously aware of the ridiculousness of his little company, Napoleon enjoyed pitting the members against one another so he could keep better informed about them...