Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lived in a house scarcely better-built than the shack pictured in TIME. It was a four-room box, tar-paper-roofed, and you could throw a cat through the cracks in the walls. We whitewashed it, papered it ourselves, and by the time my mother, a very frail woman, had planted simple flowers, the wretched place looked rather charming. Except for actual ploughing, we raised a garden and fed ourselves entirely save for sugar, salt, coffee, and wheat flour. During the War, we did without flour and cane sugar! And we lived exceedingly well. Perhaps TIME doesn...
Thus, again, woman scores another victory...
Thirty-six years ago Louis Eckstein married Elsie Syndacker, a dark, handsome University of Chicago girl, picked out for him by a Chicago woman in whom he had confided his wish to marry. Pretty Mrs. Eckstein never cared much for opera, but with devout admiration for anything her husband did she attended Ravinia every night so long as he ran it. Mr. Eckstein left her about $1,000,000. was reputed to have given her five or six million more before he died. She has been deaf to all appeals to revive Ravinia Opera, feeling that no one could...
...Byzantine influence which the Crusaders had brought back from Palestine and the beginning of an authentic Christian art in the West. Most of the altarpiece is still in Siena, but two superb little panels showing a 14th Century Italian Christ resurrecting Lazarus and meeting the Samaritan woman fell into the hands of John D. Rockefeller Jr., who let Cleveland exhibit them last week. Said Director Milliken, "The Duccios are the prize catch of the show. I just can't believe they're here...
...popular at Paramount this year, of passing stolen jewelry around (Big Brown Eyes, Desire, Florida Special). It is mounted with atmospheric travel shots, big blue & white sundecks, the usual competent Michael performance. Sample line, by Sir Guy Standing: "I have reached the age of wisdom, when a pretty woman is no more than the setting for the emerald at her throat." Denouement: the jewels planted on Bernard by Dawson...