Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning, the train from Leningrad stopped near the Finnish frontier. A captain, in the green-tabbed uniform of the Soviet Security Police, and a buxom woman interpreter came into my compartment. The woman pulled my bed apart and turned over the mattress. The pair found only one thing which pleased them: the embossed, lavender-colored propusk (pass) to Red Square for the May Day parade. The woman said in awe: "Neither of us has ever seen one of these. . . . Did you see Stalin...
...Stories. At long last, all my belongings were passed. The woman again turned to me. Her intense eyes looked straight into mine. "When you write about Russia, you will have your opinion," she said, "but write with the heart. We don't want any more war. We had enough. Remember the terrible destruction we suffered, and the pale faces of our children. Write with the heart...
...called the Guild's "smear tactics" in strikes. Said Howard: "Guild members have widely attacked the integrity and public intentions of the newspaper [in a strike] as a newspaper, and not as an employer. . . . A newspaper's good name with the public is something like a woman's reputation for chastity. You can foul our particular nest with lasting effect." One delegate called Howard's speech "an insulting attack on working newspapermen...
...excited to hiss, and who wildly applauded Pearl's always predictable but always miraculous escapes, will feel there is a good deal missing. The chances are that Pearl herself, with her prominent film career and her long, sporting afterglow in Europe, was a much more interesting woman than is suggested in this movie. It is also possible that a movie which showed the making of those first, primitive flickers as it really happened would be good for a lot more than a cheerful jeer...
...really a cruel girl, just a lass who loves nice things. So murder and allied villainies are not easy deeds for her. Some of the best of this melodrama grows out of her pity for her guileless victims, and her shamed horror over the things a young woman may be called upon to do just to get ahead...