Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Added attraction at the execution of 22-year-old Rainey Bethea, who raped and strangled a 70-year-old white woman, was Kentucky's only female sheriff, plump, matronly Mrs. Florence Thompson. When her husband died four months ago. Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy") Chandler passed his job on to her. It thus became her duty to spring the trap under Bethea. A devout Roman Catholic, Sheriff Thompson consulted her priest, learned from him that nothing in canon law prohibited her from sending the blackamoor to his legal death. Protestant churchmen concurred. Nevertheless, soft-hearted Sheriff Thompson sighed: "I suppose...
Best possible proof that Denmark is an excellent host to woman diplomats was given last month when U. S. Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Denmark and Iceland Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen married a Danish subject, Kammer-junker (Gentleman-in-Waiting) Captain Boerge Rohde (TIME, July 20). On this attractive recommendation, Denmark last week drew a second woman minister when Mexico transferred its Señorita Palma Guillen from Colombia to Denmark...
...Good! It is good! A woman? Bah. . . . She is nothing. A man? Hah. ... He is everything. There is not anything in the world that is not open to him." So said comely, blue-eyed Zdenek Koubek last week, through an interpreter, as he sat cross-legged on the deck of the lie de France. Because of his curious medical history, he was journeying to Manhattan to appear in a cabaret. Born in Bohemia 23 years ago, the child was pronounced a girl, christened Zdenka Koubkova. She grew up as a sturdy, sport-loving maiden. She set Czechoslovak women...
...healthy woman can wear sheer stockings and low-necked dresses in winter without catching cold because warm blood is sent coursing through her skin by a sex hormone called theelin. Principal function of theelin (Greek theelis, female) is to make a woman womanly. It is elaborated by the ovaries.* The theelin molecule contains 18 atoms of carbon, 22 of hydrogen, two of oxygen...
...father, W. T. ("Old Dan") Waggoner; and Virginia Joan Greene, 20, Dallas department store clerk, his sixth wife; in Colorado Springs, Colo. Fortnight ago he divorced his fifth wife, is reported to have paid her $500.000. Said Father Waggoner once: "Anybody who can't appreciate a pretty woman, a fast horse, and a good beef steer-well, something's wrong with his head." Divorced, Mrs. Lou Hoover Dunbar, daughter of retiring Dean Theodore Jesse Hoover of Stanford University's School of Engineering, niece of Herbert Hoover; and Ernest A. Dunbar; in San Jose, Calif...