Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice snapped: "Two years ago the whole Pacific Fleet was sent out for one woman flier [Amelia Earhart...
...believe it," shouted a woman...
...Duke of Windsor, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. King George VI sent a personal emissary to Cannes to invite him and the woman he thought worth a throne to come home, sent a destroyer to a secret Channel port to fetch him. The Duke & Duchess of Kent offered him their town house. But this did not mean that the royal family planned to take the unroyal Duchess to its bosom...
...Amytis' gift of curiosity," says Author Riding, "is one thing to remember about her; and her placidity of temper is another. . . . Their combination made her a sensible woman." But particularly the thing to remember about her, implies Author Riding, is that she was a good woman because Cyrus was a good husband...
...Olympias, wife of lusty, roughneck Philip II, mother of psychopathic Alexander the Great. Her sinister and violent career has always given historians the creeps. But no historian has shown so shrewd an insight into her character as Laura Riding. She poses a daring speculation: Was Olympias perhaps a noble woman embittered and corrupted by her coarsely disappointing husband? Likewise the career of Cleopatra becomes a seductive peg on which to hang the thesis that women are pretty much what men make them...