Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early one morning last May, a fear-stricken Negro woman rushed from a Philadelphia hotel, jumped into a car and headed for New York. A federal narcotics agent whom she had nearly run over fired several shots after the speeding car. In her hotel room, officers found 1½ grains of heroin. Two weeks later, sobbing the blues for sure, Jazz Singer Billie Holiday was on her way to do a year and a day at the Federal Reformatory for Women at Alderson...
...months ago, she waved her hand at the questions, ticked off U.S. women swimmers: "Free style? Yes, Ann Curtis, the best in the world. Your backstroke swimmers? Two or three good ones. But breast-strokers?" Nell wrinkled her nose significantly. She knew that she was far & away the best woman breaststroke swimmer going...
Muses Irene: "L.B. thought that a woman's place was in the home. I almost never got out except with the family." When she was 19, she got out long enough to meet a bright young studio executive named Dave Selznick at a New Year's party. Three years later they were married...
...middle class is too respectable to blow off its tensions by getting mad, beating somebody up, and then being hauled away in the paddy wagon to cool down. Instead, it grits its teeth and swallows its hurts, thus producing duodenal ulcers or harsh treatment of the little woman. All the patients studied were above average in intelligence, which prompted the two doctors to conclude that "the more intelligent persons tend to have difficulties with recovery and adjustment to disability...
...adored his wife, and the only other woman in whom he ever showed so much as "interest"' was a rugged member of the London Technical Education Board. Placed next to that noted Edwardian beauty, Lady Desborough, at dinner, Sidney only wondered why she had such a "silly trick of shutting her eyes...