Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Home Rule. In Chicago, Gilbert Johnson sued for divorce, complained that his wife not only forbade him to read any magazines (too many women in them), forbade him to read about women in the newspapers, and turned off the radio whenever a woman's voice was on, but also thrashed him occasionally...
Spat. In San Antonio, Detective D. E. Kelly was out of a job after ignoring reports that a nude man was dragging a nude woman across the street; Kelly explained that he figured it was just "a lovers' quarrel...
Today's ceremonial opening of Radcliffe College includes the Freshman Class, which is composed of woman from 33 states and Canada. In the ranks of the 300 graduate students, who will march directly behind the senior in a procession to the Church, are students from 17 foreign countries...
...story really softens one's heart," wrote one susceptible newsman as Yen's colleagues began circulating a petition to Mme. Chiang. But it was all hopeless. The deadline remained unchanged. Said Fang Chih, Kuomintang leader: "I think no patriotic man or woman wants to embrace each other under soft lights. . . . Dancing girls could be trained to acquire useful talents in reconstructing the country and wiping out bandits...
...eccentricities, "How I Wonder" tries very hard to be honest. The scientist can take the presidency of a Southern college and keep quiet on political questions, or he can give up everything and in his ineffectual way try to prevent another war. A woman from another planet, also in his mind, makes up his mind for him, when atomic fission explodes her planet and it becomes a star, which he finds on his photographic plates. By this time the much-bruited question of whether the fellow is out of his mind should have been settled, but the author still seems...