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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Being tied up with Russia," declared Britain's bellicose Lord Vansittart (Black Record), "is like being married to an 18-stone* woman who is always deceiving one and then abusing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: A Matter of Opinion | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

Correction. In Boston, City Registrar Michael J. Manning regretfully turned down a woman who wanted her birth date changed from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 9, 1948 | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Moral? Next day, Loretta'Young divulged her sources: the executive's shoes story came from a U.S. woman correspondent (who, apparently, doesn't know that coupons aren't required for resoling shoes). The chocolate-bar-and-piteous-child incident was told her by a British waiter, whose little boy had shared a bar with a neighboring girl. Londoners thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: In Darkest England | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

...Some villagers say that recently the ghost of Confucius, accompanied by the wraiths of several disciples, was seen wandering through a certain Fukien forest. There it met an old woman weeping beside a grave. She said: 'My husband's father was killed here by a tiger, and my husband also; and now my son has met the same fate.' Confucius asked why she didn't return to her village instead of living in so dangerous a place. The old woman wailed: 'I am a refugee from the Communists. Here there are tigers but no oppressive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: And Tigers, Too | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Winnifred Lenighan, the first woman ever to portray St. Joan, will again fill the little role in Shaw's tragedy next term when the Theater Workshop gives a reading of the famous play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Original 'Joan' to Assist Workshop | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

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