Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trouble is that the play has only a few--moments intensive enough to show the decay of the two women, diffusing its too slight self otherwise in side issues like the drunkenness of the husband. Grace Tuttle gave a concentrated, touching performance as the younger woman, her half-hearted southern accent being only a small fault...
...woman she was not bad," the matron said. "All of us liked her. One could never guess she was a famous...
...U.S.S.R. made major note of a minor mishap to the late Maxim Gorky. The weekly Literary Gazette recalled that in 1906 Traveler Gorky was thrown out of a Manhattan hotel when the Imperial Russian Embassy announced that his woman companion was not his wife. Furthermore, the Gazette snarled, his watch was stolen...
...bleachers trying to get his racket on it. If Riggs played in close, Big Jake blasted it straight down the middle. Usually, Kramer won his service in jig time, and then began a long drawn-out battle to crack his opponent's serve. In Memphis last week, a woman spectator began berating Riggs for his ineptness. He waddled toward her with his familiar sailor's roll, racket outstretched handle first, as if to say: "If you think you can beat him, you try it." Kramer beat Riggs, 6-3, 6-4. The score in matches, at week...
...health limits Matisse's pleasures almost entirely to his work. He sees almost no one except the handsome Russian woman, Livia Delectorskaya, who has been his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector for 15 years. Livia rounds up other models for the master-a hard job in provincially prudish Vence. Sometimes she returns with the 26-year-old girl who is the town's one harlot, who describes Matisse as "a wonderfully sweet old man, always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves...