Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York Daily News - both Dulles supporters - concede to Lehman and O'Dwyer." Said beaming Harry Truman: "It certainly is a most happy evening." The Old Man, Too. While the ladies whooped it up, the President launched into a few appropriate, off-the-cuff remarks. "Every woman in the great state of New York has done her best," he said with a bow to the assembled members of the Women's National Democratic Club. "That means she's gone to the polls and had the old man go too ... I will tell you that 2% more women vote...
...wife has hired a young woman (Margaret Lockwood) as a companion, and the ghost, apparently seeing a psychic likeness, takes her over body and soul. Miss Lockwood heaves and sobs in demonic possession for most of the rest of the film, until she is saved for the world of sunlight and for that Nice Young Man by the intervention of another and even less convincing apparition...
Alan Ladd plays a reporter who happens to be in a boarding house when a beautiful young woman is discovered dead there. He is struck by her beauty, and makes off with her address book before the usual cluck D. A. arrives. Using the address book, Ladd sniffs around trying to find something about the girl's family, friends, and past. In the course of this snooping, he bumps into a goodly number of unsavory characters, as well as a couple who are mildly savory...
...hundred sixty-nine freshmen and I dropped in on President and Mrs. Conant for tea last Thursday afternoon. "There were a lot more last week," said a stony-faced immobile young woman who stood leaning beside the Conant's front door, registering the tea traffic on a small counting gadget...
...That Forsyte Woman" was a potentially great film because there are few women in contemporary literature who would make as fascinating subjects to characterize as the Irene of John Galsworthy's "Forsyte Saga." An adequate portryal of this subtle, beautiful woman in her relations with one of England's nouveau riche dynasties would require consummate skill and perception. Unfortunately neither Greer Garson nor her lovers (Errol Flynn, Robert Young, and Walter Pidgeon) showed this; but they were not entirely to blame...