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