Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outside, someone pushed a .30 caliber carbine through a rose trellis, drew a careful bead, put two shots into Bugsy's head, two into his body. A shot that went wild lodged in an oil painting of a nude woman, holding a wine glass...
...objected to his acid words. The only man ever wounded by his Smith & Wesson was Goldschmidt; he shot himself in the hand while cleaning it. Usually it has been a beefy baritone or basso who socked him, although a tenor once tried to strangle him. Last week a woman beat him to the punch...
...woman (Wellesley's President Mildred McAfee Horton) stepped forward to receive the hoods of their honorary degrees - orange & black, edged with scarlet for Theology & Divinity, golden yellow for Science, purple for Laws, white for Arts & Letters...
...Woman on the Beach. Joan Bennett, Charles Bickford and Robert Ryan in an intelligent thriller (TIME, June...
Household. When a woman drops a dishrag she knows someone dirty is coming; when two roosters fight in the yard, two young men will soon arrive. A child who eats candy in the privy is whipped for "feedin' the Devil an' starvin' God." Soap should be stirred by a member of the family, because "a strange hand skeers the soap." A menstruating woman can't pickle cucumbers and "a bad woman can't make good applesauce...