Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fire hoses did little to check the rioters, some of whom-dared the police to go ahead and shoot. A British officer was beaten amid cries of "Fascist!" Some German passers-by pounced on the Jews, but most only watched. When rocks began to fly, one elderly German woman was seen carrying stones for the Jews to throw...
...Earl Baldwin fared less well. He affronted Whitehall by suggesting that the Colonial Office stop sending him suggestions and start sending money. He snooted officials of the U.S. military base on Antigua, and at one ball for blacks and whites condescended to dance only "with the blackest and ugliest" woman in the room. His favorite luncheon guest was a small pickaninny who wore nothing but a vest and a broad smile. Such eccentricities, the white colony complained, were a bad influence on the restless natives. Earl Baldwin was summarily ordered to take a plane home "to discuss Leeward...
...finally married a chief's daughter named Ngarongo-ki-tua (Tidings-that-Reach-Afar). She died when Peter was a child and he was brought up by his grandmother, Kapua-kore (Cloudless), who lived to be 102 years old and was, he recalls, "more tattooed than any woman I have ever seen or heard of among my people...
...down what they liked and why. One well-established, if conservative, point of view came from a man who particularly liked William J. Glackens' Nude with Apple (1910): "Of all things on earth,'women are the most beautiful, and this is an honest picture of an attractive woman." One young woman seemed to have got the Kunastrokian point the show was intended to make. She liked the paintings of the 19305 (which included works of ultra-Modernists Abraham Rattner and Karl Knaths)-just "because is because is because...
...lawyer in her suit against her father and stepmother. They wanted to "railroad" her to an insane asylum, she said, purportedly to get their hands on her cash. One day she used jujitsu on an opposing lawyer; the next day she "became the traditionally soft woman-tears and all ... broke down . . . and wept freely . . . several jurors and spectators wept with...