Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty nine of the fifty questioned this week listed gifts that any woman can buy almost anywhere. Argyle seeks, preferably hand-made and in colors not too blinding, got a sweeping majority of votes. Albums of classical or jazz records finished second. Books were third, equipment useful in pursuit of sport or hobby--tees for the golfer, flash bulbs for the photographer same next, and a dozen voters were ready to settle for a picture of the girl. The fiftieth man held for the woman herself...
...Cried a woman in a Seattle department-store elevator: "Honest, it's a sin to buy so much with prices like they are. The way I figure, Harry's paycheck is worth half of what it was eight years ago. So when the salesgirl tells me how much something costs, I just divide it in two in my head. That way, I don't feel...
...court a young woman witness told of Crowley's villa in Sicily: "About half-past five in the morning, the household had to go out and face the sun. It was called 'adoration.' The evening ceremony was the great thing. In one corner was a chair in which Mr. Crowley sat in front of a brazier in which incense was burned. There was a scarlet woman who wore a jeweled snake under her robe. There was a sort of hysterical business. [Once] a cat was sacrificed. The knife was blunt...
Soprano Regina Resnik sang the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni at the Met while a detective watched from the wings. Nothing happened. The 25-year-old blonde had had anonymous threats from a woman she thought must be mad, since the threatener doubted Regina's ability to do justice to the role...
Inspected feature by feature, Actress Johnson is a plain woman. Yet her stage presence, dominated by her huge, sorrow-logged eyes; is delicately compelling. Celia is far less dramatic and complicated than she appears. Says her Old Vic director, John Burrell: "Celia always sticks to simple two and two make four." Noel Coward, one of her fondest fans, complains that in her simple contentment "she has to be batted on the head...