Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Anderson that sailed from Yokohama last week, bound for San Francisco: Army Private William S. Girard, 22, and his Japanese bride Haru ("Candy") Sueyama, 27. Five months before, wild eagle screams had sounded across the U.S. when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Girard, accused of shooting a Japanese woman in the back on a firing range, would have to stand trial for manslaughter in a Japanese court; from Capitol Hill to Girard's home town of Ottawa, Ill., flag-waving orators, commentators and editorialists deplored handing over an American to non-American (and presumably barbaric) justice...
...richest man in the U.S. [if] you give a man a shilling [14?], he'll talk about it for the rest of his life!" Explaining why oil and love don't mix, Getty, a veteran of five marriages, sourly aphorized: "A woman resents a man dedicated to his business. She, in fact, resents anything dedicated to anything but herself...
...Nervy Massage, $2. Though Mrs. Keene was the star investigator, other equally healthy agents had called on all the naturopaths picked for investigation and subjected themselves to their treatments. A woman who complained of stomach pains to Naturopath R. W. Frydenlund in Dallas reported that he looked into her eyes with a magnifying glass, promptly diagnosed her trouble as "having eye muscles too far apart." He gave her a red-and-black-striped stick, told her to stare at it cross-eyed for 15 minutes a day. Charge: $5. In Weslaco, "Patient" Ben Laney told Naturopath F. G. Schaus that...
...climbed the social terraces at Harvard--the Dickey, the Hasty Pudding, and that loftiest of social honors, the Porcellian. But he must have been a somewhat unorthodox club member. One day he took Alice Lee to lunch at the "Porc," never before polluted by the presence of a woman. "The luncheon with Alice," Pringle notes, "caused manly indignation in the breasts of fellow members, and the true Porcellian man will deny even now that it ever could have happened...
...many films that must have sounded marvelous at the script writers' conference: a novelist, who has a husband and an Italian chauffeur, writes about three people very much like herself, her husband, and her chauffeur. Since she is a popular novelist, her creations are romanticized exaggerations--the woman becomes emotional, the husband picturesque and tyrannical, and the chauffeur passionate. The real chauffeur reads her novel and tries to make fiction come true...