Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more typical married-woman's view-point was offered by Mrs. Inez Muhleman, a southerner whose husband is at the Business School. "No, my husband isn't jealous," she claimed, "but then he always has something he can hold over me when I catch him eyeing a passing blonde." A check 15 minutes later found Mr. Muhleman standing behind his wife's desk, looking over all comers...
...half-Japanese native of Japan, descended from the Earls of Wykeham and from the "First Samurai" of the Nagoya area. His father, the son of a canon of the Church of England, introduced the pipe organ and shorthand into Japan; his mother, one of Japan's leading Christians, woman suffragists and peace advocates and the first Japanese woman to own and ride a bicycle, was Japan's woman delegate to the League of Nations, The Hague Convention and the Washington disarmament talks. They were interned at Karuizawa during...
...First official calculation of the cost to the U.S. of World War II. It amounts to $2,410 for every man, woman and child in the U.S., or $7,333 apiece for every one of some 46,500,000 U.S. taxpayers...
...windblown-bob era. Clara Bow, now a rancher's wife and mother of two, made a brief comeback, of a sort. Handsomer to the camera's eye than she was in the blowsy 20s, the onetime "It" Girl regained the spotlight as a result of another woman's triumph. A listener who managed to identify Clara's voice in a radio contest won $17,590 in prizes (including an airplane, a refrigerator, an automobile, a furnace, a fur coat, maid service for a year...
...George Frederick Hanowell, a 60-year-old Washington, D.C. matron, visited a friend who had four children, 5 to 11. All four were huddled about the radio, and "that Inner Sanctum," Mrs. Hanowell recalls with distaste, "was blasting away. There was a fusillade of shots, gurgling sounds of a woman dying, then sirens screaming and shouts of Look out. . . cops...