Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mild-mannered piano player, was convicted of manslaughter for strangling his wife, a former circus tattooed lady. "She asked me to marry her," he explained. "She was tattooed all over, but I figured I might as well. I was lonely. . . . Then I found out she was like a wild woman...
Last week, still M.F.H., Mrs. Hanbury took a plane at Shannon Airport and flew away to England. "She's a kind, generous woman," said the members of her hunt, but by week's end, as more & more farmers joined the boycott, the Blazers were hunting under police protection and there was more trouble ahead for them. Said Harry Walker, second whip of the hunt: "If Mrs. Hanbury goes, the kennel staff goes...
...most successful experiments were with human body lice, which normally live on human blood. When work began at Agriculture's laboratory at Orlando, Fla., the lice were kept thriving on their favorite food. Hired human hosts lay face down on cots, their backs covered with lice (one young woman was able to put herself through college as this kind of hostess). Dr. E. F. Knipling finally did these people out of a job by breeding lice which could live on special rabbits...
...Aspern Papers is a most lively tale concerning the adventure of a young publisher who intrudes himself, "on the footing of a lodger," into a dilapidated Venetian palazzo, where lives, with a middle-aged niece, an ancient woman who, ages before, had been mistress of the great poet Jeffrey Aspern, and who is still purported to possess a packet of love letters from him. It is the object of the publisher fellow to possess himself of these billets-an object which eludes him when the middle-aged niece, after her aunt's death, burns the letters because he will...
...sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person and, though lose he must the literary remains, yet wins himself the woman of his heart...