Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wife, a slim, handsome woman, entertained well and blended perfectly into crowds at country-club dances. He had three healthy children, two automobiles (a 1946 Buick and a 1948 Austin), and an old but suitably located eleven-room house on Staten Island. He was a tireless member of clubs, banking associations, civic committees and charity organizations...
...information desk of Oklahoma City's Daily Oklahoman, a well-dressed, fidgety woman asked to see "the woman who gives people advice." A receptionist turned the visitor over to blonde Reporter Imogene Patrick, who soon realized that she had a Page One story...
...pretending unsuccessfully to be characters in a play by Oscar Wilde. At its original best, 57 years ago, Lady Windermere's Fan was little more than a stylish vehicle for Wilde's wicked quips and epigrams. At its 20th Century movie worst, it emerges as a sentimental woman's drama-a sort of Stella Dallas in turn-of-the-century stays...
...woman in the audience fainted. Without a second thought, New York's Mayor James J. (for John) Walker darted from the radio microphone into which he was delivering his inaugural address, and knelt at her side. In the brief radio silence that day in 1926, thousands of New Yorkers stared at their sets and wondered: What was Jimmy...
Characteristic in December. The trouble, as he later explained it, was that he had trusted people too much. "I knew how to say 'no,' but could seldom bring myself to say it. A woman and a politician must say that word often, and mean it-or else." But if he had any regrets Jimmy kept them to himself. Said he: "I have carried youth right up to the fifty-yard mark. I had mine and made the most...