Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that for her. Nor did her later success ever take her far from trouble. A 1949 airplane crash killed World Middleweight Champion Marcel Cerdan, who is still remembered as her great love. A marriage to French Singer Jacques Peals ended in divorce. Says she: "I am a very faithful woman, very serious about marriage. I have a lover who came with me to America, but he has gone back. I will never marry him. We are not in accord in our thinking...
...must learn to expect anything. An old lady in Washington, D.C. asked the repairman to run the new telephone wire through her parakeet's cage so that he "would have something interesting to perch on" (refused). A Chicago woman insisted on having her wall telephone four inches from the floor so that she would be forced to exercise while bending to answer it (granted). One telephone man was called to a Chicago hotel to repair a badly frayed cord, discovered the cause of the trouble as he was leaving: sitting in the bathtub was a pet lion...
Africa teaches 'him what he wants. From Romilayu, his native Sancho Panza, he learns something of undeviating loyalty. Romilayu leads Henderson to the Arnewi, a sweet-spirited tribe which lives by the rule of kindness. Their Queen Willatale, a woman of imposing gravity, gives Henderson a hint of the demon that drives him on. She tells him that he has the grun-tu-molani, in effect, the will to live rather than die, and to live more abundantly. In gratitude, Henderson proposes to rid the Arnewi of an infestation of frogs which, according to tribal superstition, is ruining...
...would boast to friends about his wife's fidelity, liked phoning her from nightspots, when she was asleep at home, and bleating: "Sweetheart, I want you to tell Tom 'hello' "-after which he would pass over the receiver for Tom to hear for himself the little woman's sleepy, saintly squeaks...
...Mistress (Japanese). The rise of a fallen woman is quietly, shrewdly observed by Director Shiro Toyoda in one of the best films to come out of Japan...