Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with this remark: "I heard a most extraordinary story the other day"-anyone may interrupt with "Stop right there! I know what you are going to tell us. A friend of yours, or someone's sister, or your aunt's cousin, picked up in her car a woman who was walking wearily along the street. She got into the back seat and after a silence announced 'Someone will die in this car today.' After the driver had recovered a little, she went on 'Hitler will die on . . . (varying dates according to the version...
...have heard this story five times in different parts of New England. Yesterday I read in the latest copy of The New Yorker-from the letter from Paris-the following: ". . . A gipsy woman got into an autobus and sat down next to a Parisienne who moved her handbag out of the gipsy's reach. The gipsy said, 'Why do you do that when you have only 18 francs in your bag?' The woman had exactly that sum. Then the gipsy told each of the other passengers how much he or she had, down to the last...
...recent years ardent anti-Semite Adolf Hitler and his then leading British admirer, potent London Daily Mail Press Tycoon Viscount Rothermere, conducted their somewhat confused and often ludicrous relations through "Princess Steffi, the Mystery Woman of Europe" (as tabloids tag her), despite the fact that she is a Viennese Jewess. In court, Princess Steffi was able to show that Lord Rothermere has paid her some $185,000 in a period of over five years to be his "foreign political representative." She was now suing to force him to fulfill an alleged promise to pay her $20,000 yearly...
...appeared that the approach of World War II caused the press lord to decide belatedly that European politics ought to be handled through the Foreign Offices only, and this cost the Mystery Woman her job with him. The Paris weekly Aux Ecoutes charged in 1933, when she was reported expelled from France, that she was a Nazi spy. She now claims that Lord Rothermere persuaded her not to sue the Paris paper for damages, promising to defend her honor in his newspapers. She charges that he failed to do so, and was thus doubly guilty of breach of contract...
Snitching letters and keeping photostats are what every Mystery Woman does and "Toffi," as she is also called, sat looking pleased with herself, on a front bench at the justice's right. A stumpy, determined, middle-aged woman, she wisely wore a quiet black dress and small black hat with large black velvet snood into which she tucked her mouse-brown hair. Her attorney, King's Counsel Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, opened cautiously by tracing events back twelve years to his client's first meeting with Lord Rothermere. The Viscount, he declared, "told the Princess in 1927 that...