Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nancy Carroll '51, one of the girl's whose money was stolon, described the woman as middle aged, wearing a black coat and a red and white kerchief. The robbery was not reported to the police...
When the Atlantic Monthly held its first prize novel contest 23 years ago, a flood of 1,150 manuscripts engulfed the editorial staff; extra readers were hired to weed out the hopeless entries. Into the rejects went a manuscript titled Jalna, written by a Canadian woman named Mazo de la Roche. Its handsome binding caught the eye of one of the Atlantic's regular editors. He picked the manuscript out of the discard, glanced at it and did not stop reading until he had finished it. Jalna won the contest's $10,000 first prize...
...three days a week. Only the News Chronicle devoted the bulk of this extra space to wider reporting of politics and industry. By contrast, Beaver-brook's Daily Express added Dick Tracy and Kit Conquest to its comic strips, expanded the letters-to-the-editor column, and turned Woman's Editor Anne Edwards loose for two columns on her favorite foods and pet hates. The Daily Mirror, locked in a circulation war with the Express, also added a woman's page to its successful formula of sex-plus-Socialism...
...makes one of the screen's most refreshing matches-Paul Douglas as a hard-boiled big shot and Linda Darnell as the beautiful but shrewd shopgirl who outmaneuvers him into matrimony. Filmed with wit and insight, their courtship is the classic duel of man's will and woman...
...irrationally optimistic mother who believes that "there isn't a situation in the world that can't be passed off with small talk," Miss Sidney in completely flighty and helpless; as the remade woman in the last act, she is a depressed lover beneath her maternal gaiety...