Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...painting (by the U.S.'s George Francis) of Surjit Singh, an Indian, who works in the Security Council Library and is famed for his pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
...gave River Saga a steady flow of hummable melodies and pounding rhythms that hit his West Virginia audience right where they lived. One woman who had traveled 36 miles from Gauley Bridge to hear the premiere was pleased as punch with the third section, which described the stretch where the upper branches of the Kanawha join forces, roar over Kanawha Falls. "There's a song I've heard every day of my life on the river," said she. "You can hear it right in the music...
...matter how obvious it is-to make his misanthropic points ("I used to think a dowry was where you got milk-until I got married. I got milked plenty then"). He can affect poor hearing if it will make a gag go: once he pretended to think a woman described herself as a "monster" instead of a "spinster" ("Oh well," he said, winding up the whole discussion, "there isn't a great deal of difference...
Thus spoke Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark, 49, the first woman Treasurer of the U.S. to an audience of 105 women in San Francisco's ornate Fairmont Hotel last week...
...strange and bloody epoch of the sea," pipe Publishers Doubleday, forgetting in their rapture that "epic" is the proper pennant to hoist on such occasions, "Robert Graves turns his incomparable talents to the remarkable Ysabel Barreto -beautiful and dangerous-who used treachery, intrigue, and love to become the first woman admiral in the Spanish navy and then embarked on a perilous voyage, filled with incredible and startling adventures, to the Solomon Islands in search of gold...