Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...becomes a playwright, Johnston said, "The only way to get your play read if you're a woman is to become secretary to the boss or prop girl at the theatre--in order to get to know the people who will eventually make decisions on scripts. On Friday say, 'I'll fix that for you over the weekend,' then come back with it done on Monday. The Big Boss thinks you're clever and you have a foot-hold on the ladder...
...much easier for a woman to become a playwright than a man, because she has ways of working inside the theatre that men don't have. Men have only two ways of getting inside the theatre: one, by starting amateur of semi-professional groups of their own; and two, by having their plays read by agents in foreign countries...
...mental wrestling he must have gone through himself. We have a militant author of atheistic books; a devout Catholic housekeeper; a Catholic priest who says, "It's a difficult thing, though, practicing a faith, day in, day out, when you don't believe one jot of it"; a woman who believes in God "on Sundays if the music's good"; a man who exclaims, "I don't want God. I don't love God, but He's there--it's no good pretending; He's in my lungs like air"--clearly not a simple bunch...
...helpers, negotiating and parleying with them but despising them at heart and destroying their devotion with her intrigues and ineffectual cunning. One by one the moderates fell from power; then the toughest extremists took over and sealed the fate of the Queen they called "tigress thirsting for blood," "cannibal woman," "implacable harridan who for too long profaned the holy land of liberty with her pestilential breath...
Fine Grinding. In Wilmington, Del., John Dudek, 70, who lost a wallet containing $51.62 in 1929, was astounded when a woman rang his doorbell and handed him the wallet, explaining: "It was like a God-sent gift. But we're good Christian people, and for 28 years we thought, on and off, of the money. So we finally decided we'd better return...