Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than a few A.G.R.S. men fell into situations which savored of Terry and the Pirates. Communist detachments held some of them prisoner, in the belief that they were spies for Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist forces. One A.G.R.S. team crossed into Indo-China and found a blonde French woman leading a band of Vietnamese guerrillas. A C-47 crew, which crashed in the Himalayan hills, walked back 350 miles through bandit country. For fear of dysentery they lived entirely on boiled eggs until natives talked them into a meal of fried bees (which tasted like a cross between meat...
...ardent disciple of Berillon, Lucie Guillet, offered the second message of hope. The science she-and she alone-practices, she calls poetico-therapy: the cure, by poetry, of nervous disorders, or physical ailments arising from them. Madame Guillet is a short woman in her middle sixties with an extraordinarily girlish figure, peroxide blonde hair, bulging green eyes and a seared, flabby face. During her poetic treatments, her normally rasping voice, punctuated by peals of raucous laughter, slips easily from a piercing falsetto to a husky, melodramatic whisper...
Lady Diana Duff Cooper, willowy wife of Britain's Ambassador to France and once "The Most Beautiful Woman in England," was right in there with Greta Garbo, who got left $20,000 by a hermit last month. Lady Diana was left a fortune by a lovelorn Spanish grandee who had set eyes on her only twice. Big-nosed, big-mustached Count Manuel Antonio de Luzarraga saw her at a London ball more than 20 years ago; 15 years later he saw her again on the street. He had brightened the years between by writing her anonymous love letters. Scotland...
...headlines he made in Hollywood last winter, when he saw the one woman for him, were the worst yet. The fact that she also happened to be his host's wife caused him no hesitation. He wooed & wedded the girl despite the continuing objections of a California court. Sweet-faced Laraine Day was only 26, a girl of strict Mormon upbringing who neither drinks, smokes nor swears. The Leo & Laraine Page One stories did neither Durocher nor baseball any good. The Catholic Youth Organization of Brooklyn (50,000 members) is boycotting the Dodgers so long as Durocher runs them...
...translated into English: The Woman Who was Poor (Sheed & Ward, 1939, $2.50); Letters to His Fiancée (Sheed & Ward...