Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...musicians -a guitarist, a violinist, and an accordion player. "You're a little late," said Mrs. Hadley, who had been waiting for an hour at the St. Louis airport. Asked if they would elope, Barkley laughed and said, "There's only one reason for a man and woman to elope. That's if their mammy and pappy object...
Flying back to Paducah, Ky., they repaired to Barkley's rambling brick house, "Angles." At the buffet supper that night Barkley stayed close to Mrs. Hadley, grinned when his traveling minstrels serenaded her with St. Louis Blues ("St. Louis woman . . . Pulls that man roun' by her apron strings"). Next day, Mrs. Hadley sat next to him as he dedicated the Paducah airport as Barkley Field...
...Done what?" asked Jim. "Raped that white woman," the cop replied. That, swears Jim Montgomery, was the first he knew that he was in real trouble. Mamie Snow, a 62-year-old white woman who peddled doughnuts in Waukegan's squalid Negro district, had been found, beaten and moaning, near the Oakwood cemetery. Mamie vowed that she had been raped and the police told Jim that she had named him as her attacker...
...when walking they tried to route themselves past the doors of air-conditioned movies, where they could breath in a little coolness. The touch of a barber's hot towel, or the simple process of swallowing hot coffee, was enough to make a shirt go limp or a woman's make-up shine greasily. In the packed and airless slums, tens of thousands slept on rooftops or fire escapes. The heat seemed even more pitiless out across the farm states, where farmers often worked from sunup to sundown, sweating in the fields or jolting behind the oven-like...
...current Journal of the American Medical Association, Dr. Wolfson describes a woman's tongue which had turned brownish-black; the tips of the taste buds had grown long and hairlike, and "bent like the nap of wet, heavy velvet when stroked with a tongue blade...