Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Governor Paul Dever's special commission has now taken over the Van Waters case, to the intense relief of the entire Commonwealth. For many months, the public has been treated to a vicious series of incredible attacks in the press upon a woman who is undoubtedly one of the greatest social workers in the United States. Following these attacks, Miriam Van Waters was dismissed on January 11 as superintendent of the Women's Reformatory at Framingham by her superior, Commissioner of Correction McDowell. She demanded --and got--a special hearing to clear her record, but under a strange sort...
Family Honeymoon (Universal-International) devotes itself strenuously to the leering old gag of setting up an obstacle course between the nuptial bed and a pair of ardent newly weds (Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray). Among the obstacles: the Other Woman (Rita Johnson), the rigors of a tour through the Grand Canyon, the constant company of the bride's three small children by a former marriage...
Traveler Cummings' afternoon at the home of the influential woman Communist known as Madame Potiphar-with a lean GPU agent appearing unexpectedly, and the hostess disappearing with "a hero of work" while her husband lectures to Cummings about the Cause-is a queer mixture of horror and humor in upper-crust Communist social life. The other episodes and scenes seem to have grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm...
...turn back. In one entry he sadly and ironically remarks that his fiancee "wants the average: a comfortable home, an interest on my part in the [family's] factory, good food, bed at eleven, central heating"-just the things the author of The Metamorphosis could not give a woman...
...vehicle for this monumental tragedy is a confused and laborious tale of two rugged individualists and their battle for pearls, gold, and a woman. Both men are the ultimate in their types. The hero is strong, courageous to a fault, and kind to kiddies. The heavy is wealthy, unscrupulous, and abominably clever. A couple of characters like this can make a picture dull under any circumstances, but when the whole improbable business is set in the languid South Seas amid octopi and dancing girls and crusted with miserable dialogue, the boredom reaches epic proportions...