Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a U.S. citizen who still thought of marriage as a relatively permanent relation was mildly surprised that a married man should announce his "engagement" to another woman. But no one in the Right Set, as the columnists sometimes call café society, batted a jaded...
...home . . . chases me . . . whistles at me from behind trees and peers at me from behind pillars . .. leaps out at me on the street . . . scares me witless by jumping at me from doorways." Protested 74-year-old Hall to police: "This is proper conduct for a man wooing a woman...
...troops in a beleaguered fortress. ... All the same ... to have spent the last few days behind its doomed defenses was to fall inevitably into nostalgic and melancholy mood. Ramzak was a challenging flight of military fancy. ... It was called 'the largest monastery in the world.' . . . No [European] woman has ever been within 60 miles, except the six ENSA [British USO] girls, who arrived for one night in June 1944, and left their high-heeled footprints in the soft cement outside the Brigade Headquarters mess. This monument remains, to the puzzlement of the tribesmen...
Each week, four contestants-usually three men and one woman-answer questions about farm life. Samples: "Why is butter yellower in summer than in winter?" "'Why are barns painted red?"* Prizes, as in most quiz programs, are lavish, but they are also practical: a manure spreader, an automatic shotgun, a ten-year supply of overalls (40 pairs), a milking machine. Contributors of questions used get a $50 gift certificate with a mail-order catalogue...
...schoolhouse which leaked so badly that on rainy days Booker T. Washington had to keep his umbrella up while teaching. For weeks, he and his students lived on little more than sweetened water and black peas. The Negroes of the town could only help him a little. An old woman hobbled up to him one day and gave him all she had-six eggs. "Mr. Washington," she said, "I knows what you is tryin...