Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taste of liquor and felt that the main thing to be obtained from drinking was a lessening of their own tension and an increasing of their sociability. . . . Women drunkards have a strong attachment to their mothers, strong narcissism and strong inter-tension, making social contact difficult. . . . The alcoholic woman is always striving for social recognition and fears this will not be given. She experiences feelings of sexual inferiority and projects it in hallucinations to the outside world."-Dr. Frank Joseph Curran, Manhattan...
...caused the currents to traverse the animals' hearts. He had no need to experiment with human beings after he learned that an average-sized pig matches a fat little man in body weight and heart weight; an average sheep matches heart and body of a medium-sized woman. Having discovered those facts, Mr. Ferris learned that a couple of French physiologists in 1899 had found that a strong electric shock will stop fibrillation and restart the heart on its regular beat. After verifying this, Mr. Ferris determined that "to be successful, a counter-shock must be administered promptly after...
...agents arrested stubby, mild-mannered John Torrio, Chicago's No. i racketeer in the early 1920's and Al Capone's onetime boss, for an ordinary revenue law violation (TIME, May 4). Bail was set at a supposedly prohibitive $100,000. Last week a plump, elderly woman walked into Manhattan's U. S. District Court, dipped deep into her black purse, pulled out a fat wad of bills, carefully peeled off 97 crisp $1,000 bills, four $500 bills, ten $100 bills. A gaping clerk counted them, recounted them, made out a receipt for the bail...
...Concert Intime" in Washington, D. C. last week the solo performer was a dark-haired, comely young woman who appeared in a low-cut Nile-green gown, bowed graciously to her audience, raised a gold trumpet to her lips, closed her eyes and proceeded to tootle. Her arm muscles twitched while she played. The ruffles on her bosom and the orchids on her shoulder fluttered fitfully with each inspiration. But otherwise there were no signs of exertion...
Generatrix is Charlotte, now 56, 4 ft. 11n., "a pleasant spoken little woman [who] has had six daughters by five different fathers. She considers that she has 'done no harm to no one and I've got to live.' " She makes a meagre living with her embroidery. Her daughters, all unmarried, have seven daughters, three sons...