Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World War II broadcasts from Berlin were prompted, she told the jury, by two basic precepts, neither the tiniest bit treasonable: 1) a woman must live, and 2) a woman must love...
Little Miss Echo. She described him as a man "who loved the mountains [of Silesia] with the intensity that a man might love a woman." In 1943 he went there to think about Miss Gillars (he had a wife and three children) and there found that "God favored his love." After that, she echoed his ideas like an empty barrel on a hog caller's porch. Since he was anti-British, anti-Jewish and anti-Roosevelt, she had said some rather hard things on the radio...
...When Floral Park's handsome society physician, Dr. Herbert J. Bernhardt, broke into the apartment of his estranged wife, Mary, brandishing a crowbar and followed by five ax-wielding minions, the woman from downstairs screamed, the two babies woke up crying in the back room and the dance instructor dropped his demitasse and fell off his chair." Tabloid readers just had to read to see what happened after the instructor and the demitasse hit the floor...
...Woman's Secret (RKO Radio) might better have been kept under lock & key. Producer Herman J. Mankiewicz, a veteran scripter who should have known setter, scraped this one right off the bottom of Vicki Baum's rhinestone-studded jarrel of slick fiction...
...Corroding Drop. When war came, Elizabeth Bowen was 40, a homely-handsome woman with a slight stutter and great charm, married to an executive of the BBC. She and her husband, Alan Cameron, had a tall house facing London's Regent's Park. There, Novelist Bowen sat down deliberately to restudy her Irish background, her English foreground and the lives she knew as they settled into war. The first result was a long book, Bowen's Court, on the history of her family and the estate in Cork that they had owned since Cromwell...