Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night early this month they walked drunkenly into a Columbus tavern, yanked out automatic pistols and took $800 in cash and checks from the till. Half an hour later they walked into another bar and began shooting. They killed the owner, wounded a woman customer, jubilantly scooped up another...
...quietly about its job of doctoring for the nation. Unless there is some sudden medical miching malicho (an outbreak of smallpox in New York, or plague in California), the public sees little of its day-to-day workings. Yet the P.H.S. has helped improve the health of every man, woman & child in the U.S. Last week, few people noticed that the P.H.S. was celebrating its 150th birthday...
...drives his son to suicide, and sends his unmarried pregnant daughter (Deborah Kerr) out into a raging storm with fine Victorian flourish. Then, completely batty, father pulls the burning castle down over his ears in a huff, and leaves a mild young doctor (James Mason) to make an honest woman of Miss Kerr. The only possible excuse for bringing this seven-year-old film to the U.S. is mercenary: the box-office pull of Deborah Kerr and of James Mason, who, at this tender stage of his career, seems never to have heard of sadism. The only possible reason...
...powerful means for achieving true happiness," noted candid young Leo Tolstoy in his diary, "[is] to spread out from oneself, in every direction, like a spider, a whole spider's web of love, and to catch in it everything that comes along-whether it is an old woman or a child, a girl or a policeman...
...Populi. In Oklahoma City, Election Board Secretary Winfred P. Fowler got back an absentee ballot from a vacationing woman with a sweeping criticism: "I don't like the names of any of the men you sent me. Please mail me another list...