Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widow's Lot. At 64, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt has become, perhaps, the best-known woman in the world. Three years after her husband's death, she has reversed the usual lot of presidents' widows by gaining measurably in stature and prestige. She is a unique combination of Citizeness Fix-it and great lady. Today hers is the best-known among the many well-known names at the United Nations. She is the only U.S. delegate who has been named to every Assembly. She has been voted the most popular living American in a magazine poll, proposed...
...press conference in Salonika, timed to coincide with Secretary Marshall's visit to Greece (see INTERNATIONAL), Minister of Justice George Melas told 200 newsmen that the case was practically solved; three men and a woman had been charged with conspiracy...
...Girls Go, Bobby Clark's new vehicle, puts him in the novel position of husband to the first woman president, but nevertheless the show fared badly at the hands of the reviewers. Minnie and Mr. Williams is a light bit of fancy involving a Welsh parson, his fluttery wife, and a devil named Gladys. Put Josephine Hull and Eddie Dowling in this situation and you have a pretty good idea of what it's all about...
Here again is Southern woman sore beset, hounded by desire and hobbled by gentility, and wrecked not so much by passion as by the attempt to give it a prettier name, to deny its carnal nature. Alma Winemiller (Margaret Phillips) is a minister's repressed, highfalutin daughter, passionately in love with the hell-raising son of the doctor next door. Possibly John Buchanan (nicely played by Tod Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely...
Into the ballroom of Kansas City's Hotel President, one night last week, swept a trim, greying woman in a ruby red satin dress, with a U.S. Senator on one arm and a retired judge on the other. In the room was just about everybody who was anybody in Kansas City, and they gave a five-minute ovation to 59-year-old Dressmaker Nellie Donnelly...