Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perles," one of the famous oldtime French productions, depict the story of the wanderings of seven pearls purloined from an old Gallie crown and their subsequent journies from neck to neck. Sacha Guitry is head man in the flick while one Lyn Harding is purported to be the woman to watch...
...busy man or woman you want to remember for some special courtesy to you-doctor, lawyer. homemaker, minister, career woman or valued client...
Helens in Hecubas. The second impulse that led Balzac to write the 90-odd novels of The Human Comedy, says Zweig, was his passion for women. In his early books, while still in his twenties, he had fiercely championed loveless ladies entering frustrated middle age, the married woman whose husband took her for granted and seldom into his arms. Women became his first devotees, wrote him letters by the thousands, frequently offered themselves to their indiscriminate advocate. Wrote Zweig: "This man could see a Helen in every woman, even in Hecuba, as soon as his will power came into play...
Even when his Chouans and La Peau de Chagrin made him an outstanding figure in French literature, he continued-like a married woman secretly visiting a maison de rendezvous to earn some pin-money-to frequent his former low haunts and degrade the famous Honoré de Balzac to the status of a cheap hack. . . ." In fact, Zweig does a better job of explaining the hack in Balzac than he does in explaining his greatness...
Holdout. In New Rochelle, N.Y., an elderly woman boarded a train, told the conductor, "I didn't buy this ticket today," gave him one dated September...