Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Negroes who had shot up two youngsters in a rumble, the commissioner passed on a pointed order to his department: "You shall not enter into treaties, concordats, compacts or agreements of appeasement. You shall meet violence with sufficient force, legally applied, to bring violators to justice. Every man, woman and child has the right to use the streets of this city without fear and without consent of any illegally organized group...
Largesse & Looting. France's "Sun King," Louis XIV, let fall his rays first on the Louvre before building Versailles, tripled and quadrupled the royal collection. Into the royal preserve came such masterpieces as Titian's Young Woman at Her Toilet (the property of Britain's Charles I until his beheading) and Titian's Madonna with a Rabbit (which Louis won from a French duke at tennis...
...ordained priest, and two years later went back to Russia, then in the throes of the revolution, where he served two years as pastor in Tiflis. One day he met an old woman named Djuga-shvili, who told him proudly: "My son once studied for the priesthood, too." Her son's other name: Stalin...
...released last week. The U.S. housewife, reported Kroehler, believes that her reputation for "good taste" depends greatly on her selection of furniture. But she does not know for certain what "good taste" is, and the furniture industry has done little to help her learn. In choosing furniture, the American woman "must do credit to her husband's taste in 'wife choosing.' She is proving herself in a completely visible way, and she finds the idea frightening." Concludes Kroehler: "The American consumer approaches the purchase of furniture much as she approaches a visit to the dentist. She must...
...weak as his life drive, this strange combination paves the road to the lower depths. Yozo has an affair with a waitress, but fluffs his end of their suicide pact. Scrabbling for a living as a second-rate cartoonist, he is kept, for a time, by a woman journalist. To keep himself in cheap gin, the cartoonist sinks to pornography. Toward novel's end, Yozo is even ready to make love to a monstrously crippled female druggist in return for morphine...