Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whole Woman...
...woman tagged as Anna Battachi got worse, was moved into bed No. 19 in the ward. The one tagged as Giuseppina Mettlica was moved into bed No. 33. The hospital called Anna Battachi's brother Anselmo to visit his failing sister. He sat for hours beside bed No. 19. The patient was in an oxygen mask, unrecognizable, unable to talk. Soon she died. Anna's sister Cesira, hurriedly summoned from Bologna, went to the mortuary and screamed: "This isn't my sister." A male nurse told her confidently: "Faces change after death. That was your sister...
Better Than Most. When Saturday came. Giuseppina Mettlica's working neighbors were free to visit her. Astorria Alessi was led to bed No. 33, where Giuseppina's chart hung. But the woman looked different. Besides, protested Astorria. "my friend came in a pink underskirt." At mention of this garment, one of the volunteers recalled: "The patient who died in bed No. 19 was buried in a pink underskirt." Now at last the volunteers understood why the woman in bed No. 33 had muttered protests when they called her Giuseppina. She was in fact Anna Bianca Battachi...
...cracked: "Who wouldn't? I'd like to go straight to Miss Van Home, too." At Critic John Mason Brown he shot: "John, you give us the learned and scholarly explanation-either that, or give us your own." The panel differed in its advice to a woman who wrote in about a semantic quibble with her husband, but Groucho cleared it up fast: "My suggestion is that she get rid of her husband." He dubbed Professor Evans "Bergie." After the guest expert, in the manner of his own show, kept asking whether letter writers were "married or single...
...Englishman, even before he tells Phuong, that he has fallen in love with her. He intends, he says, to marry her and take her back to "the folks in Texas," and he belligerently allows to Fowler (whose wife, back in England, will not give him a divorce) that "a woman's entitled to the security of marriage"-adding thoughtfully that of course "we both have her interests at heart." Fowler snaps back incredulously: "I don't care about her interests. I want her!" And still more incredulously he assists at a preposterous charade: he helps Pyle to propose...