Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other Woman. In Seattle, Mrs. Pearl Kendrick, 54, asked for a divorce on grounds of cruelty and abandonment after 64-year-old husband Fred spent three days in bed reading Forever Amber...
...tangled in a huge electric fan. They were bound for Los Angeles and a brother-in-law's dairy farm-"to find a good future for the children." A newsman asked Mrs. van der Dussen if such a future could not be found in Europe? The stout Dutch woman shrugged, moved her hand in an impatient gesture-how could she explain a self-evident fact to these fortunate, blissfully ignorant Americans...
...grey earlier, have bigger feet, eat less but do more heavy drinking, are less prudish, less weepy and less moral, marry earlier, cook better meals but make poorer mothers, are much less satisfied "with their lot as women." Independently, Dr. Marynia F. Farnham, Manhattan psychiatrist and coauthor of Modern Woman: The Lost Sex, proclaimed that U.S. women are the unhappiest in the world...
...young congressman and his politically wise mother. Some sixty minutes, a Swedish massage and numerous political shcunnanigans later, the former domestic finds herself running in a congressional race against the man supported by her former employers. To complicate matters further, an indiscretion committed by the aspiring congress-woman in the first reel and long since forgotten by everyone, including the audience, comes back to plague her campaign...
...Harlem, a young woman named Sylvia Carol Steinberg, armed with hypodermics and vials, went briskly to work in a restaurant. Queues formed quickly. In two days, with her boy friend looking on admiringly, she had vaccinated 500 people. Suspicious cops finally hauled her into a police station, found that she had "vaccinated" everybody with water. Arraigned for "assault," she was packed off to a psychiatric ward...