Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Woman] of the Year...
Please let me be amongst the first to nominate and plead for your recognition of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt as the Woman of the Year. Her unstinting work in behalf of human relations has been unquestionably outstanding...
...more of this, or to go home. A tall, distinguished-looking man came rushing down the corridor. "Let's go, ladies," he called rudely. They fluttered out of his way, and he rushed by toward an unknown destination, clutching a bottle of Scotch in his arms. A weary woman murmured: "Oh dear, when will we become world-minded...
...educated in a Paris convent and made her debut in glittering St. Petersburg. She was a daring horsewoman, a thrilling amateur actress, a painter and a gifted linguist. With a Junoesque figure and chestnut hair that fell well below her knees, she was, they said, the loveliest woman in all Ireland...
...Maud Gonne's talents and beauty were not for the drawing rooms of Dublin and the salons of Mayfair. One midwinter night, after a fashionable ball in Ireland's midcountry, Maud had seen an Irish peasant woman and her children flung out of their home by a landlord. Her gay companions shuddered and forgot. But from that time on, Maud Gonne devoted her life to Ireland's independence...