Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusky St. Louis song-&-dance woman (Josephine Baker) had ruled the jungle of the Folies Bergère clad only in several bananas" [TIME, June 16]. This is a wonderful typographical error (bandanas), priceless...
Alice is a brisk, sober, sandy-haired woman, with thin lips and level blue eyes. Even when she was a rookie, fellow cops on the auto-theft detail admired her for her cool nerve. She went anywhere, any time, and she carried her blue .38-caliber service pistol as naturally as she did her handbag. In a year, she built up quite a record of arrests...
Chicago-born Defendant Chandler had been an officer in the U.S. Navy in World War I, worked as a newspaperman in Baltimore. He had married a wealthy woman. In 1931, ruined by the depression, he left the U.S., talking bitterly of the "unAmerican fog spreading over the land from the swamp of imported Jewish-Bolshevik subversion." With his wife and two small daughters, he had settled in Germany. Soon, Douglas Chandler embraced Naziism...
Hoary Annex legend and tradition did not vanish from the scene entirely, however. One young thing removed her glasses thoughtfully, and probed the inner woman for a raison d'etre of summer toll...
...kind to an escaped convict on the marshes. The convict is given his freedom in Australia, and he never forgets Pip. The other plot concerns a woman, who since her bridegroom failed at her wedding years before, has never seen the light of day. She lives in her bridal dress in a room that still contains the banquet table complete with wedding cake. Pip is summoned to talk to her once a week, and there he meets a beautiful girl, Estella, who is being trained by the old lady to revenge her on men. But Pip loves her right through...