Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...events which almost nobody noticed in the midst of all these were the birth in Braunau, Austria, of a boy-child and within a year the entrance into Parliament of a young Welshman-the son of a teacher in Pwllheli, the husband of a woman from Mynyddednyfed. The young parliamentarian burned with liberal zeal to make the capitalistic society of his day a better place to live in; in the last six years the Austrian has undermined the foundations of that society. Last week, within 48 hours of each other, Adolf Hitler celebrated his 50th birthday and David Lloyd George...
Died. Mme Clémentine Delait, 74, France's most famed bearded woman; in Epinal. Because her café, where she peddled picture post cards of herself (mustache, sideburns, foot-long beard), prospered, Mme Delait repeatedly spurned the overtures of importunate circus-owners...
...than to live without one." The police, on a house-to-house search for the robber of the liquor store, frighten the innocent tramp, and he flees in the old maid's car, taking her maid and most of her silverware with him. Moral: "A woman can do what the Devil himself can't do: make a thief of an honest...
...Time For Comedy Behrman (perhaps transferring his own qualms) treats of a writer of comedies who wonders whether he shouldn't be more serious-minded. This beautiful notion is implanted in him by an uplifted, though agreeably carnal, society woman, and involves him in a mess of ideas about immortality and Loyalist Spain. It takes all the skill of the playwright's clever, patient wife (Katharine Cornell) to give his plays, and her life, a happy ending...
...Sarah Easton, a rawboned, middle-aged woman with an eroded face, was "raised hard." She lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage...