Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pulled two of his own teeth, and sent in a claim for payment to himself. Last week* a butcher in Dudley, Worcestershire, asked for three pairs of eyeglasses: one for reading, one for looking at far-off things, one for chopping meat. He got them. In Cambridge, an elderly woman, bald since the age of six, asked for a wig. Ruled S. W. Davis, the pensions officer: "She will be provided with two wigs, as one occasionally has to be cleaned...
This winter's program will offer him a chance to expand even further: later offerings will be Rossini's "A Turk in Italy"--never done here before--and "Carmen," which Goldovsky considers a great opera in spite of the depredations of Rita Hayworth and every other woman who ever held a rose in her teeth...
Fundamentally, this Wintergreen, son of a Lower East Side song writer and a Pittsburgh playwright, was "A Man's Man," and he was said to "love the Irish and the Jews." When John P. was taking the stump, what man or woman was there who could refuse to shout his campaign slogans: "Even Your Dog Loves John P. Wintergreen" and "John P. Wintergreen--The Flavor Lasts." Who could resist the onslaught of goose pimples when John mounted the platform and began to tell a nation of his dreams of "The Full Dinner Jacket...
...long as the story sets up problems for bouncy, pregnant Peggy (Jeanne Crain) and her glum G.I. husband (William Holden)-and answers their problems with advice from Socrates and Spinoza-Apartment for Peggy is a pleasant little movie flavored with idealism. Then it spills over into woman's magazine fiction and some heavy bathos about a retired philosophy professor (Edmund Gwenn...
...turns out that the two men are utterly helpless ninnies. Without a woman's guiding hand, they would doodle their lives away. Peggy's husband is ready to swap his teaching career for a mess of lettuce; the professor wavers on the brink of suicide. Both are rescued from their weaker natural instincts by the gay, brave, ginghamed Little Woman...