Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wealth of choice makes it possible for the single-minded consumer to buy a car or appliance that is practically custom-made-but he inevitably pays for the privilege. "Imagine the poor woman who walks into our refrigerator showroom to buy a refrigerator," says Maurice Leifler, executive sales director of Chicago's Polk Brothers discount chain. "She looks around and sees 55 different models. Where does she start?" The buyer is so baffled that she often does...
...Mary Gindhart Roebling, 52, was elected as a public governor of the American Stock Exchange, the first woman to reach a major exchange's top policymaking board. Widow of Siegfried Roebling (grandson of the Brooklyn Bridge builder), Mary Roebling took over her husband's job as director of the Trenton Trust Co. in 1936, became president a year later, is now both president and chairman. In her reign, the bank's assets have swelled from $17 million to more than $90 million...
...title of this biography puts both the author's point of view and his heroine in a nutshell-quite an achievement, considering that Germaine de Staël was probably the largest, loudest, lustiest woman who ever strode the pages of French history. Riding the great waves of social upheaval during and after the Revolution, Germaine exhausted her lovers, exasperated her friends, maddened her rulers...
...when Holly has the "mean reds," as she calls the deep blues, and shudders at thoughts of "the fat woman," as she calls death, she likes to cab past Tiffany's and "breakfast" on its jeweled serenity, or else crawl out on her fire escape with her cat and sing "Don't wanna sleep, Don't wanna die, Just wanna go a-travelin' through the pastures...
...Peter in jail? The question involves a real novelist's art-the reverse of the whodunit, which is to disclose the crime and disguise the motive. Halfway through the book, when all the motives are clarified, Peter's crime is disclosed: he has killed a woman and stuffed her mouth with banknotes...