Word: womanish
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Belle. Finally, there is the family retainer, Nathalie, a formidable old bag of moles, chin hairs and salty folk proverbs. The four women are snug and smug; they have pooled their womanish fears to put life, as normally lived, in the wrong...
...name of the Polish female youth I take this oath, oh God! . . . We shall move the world, the hearts of nations, of politicians and statesmen even. For this aim we shall offer what we hold dear: womanish traits of goodness and mildness. We shall become soldiers who fight, who pour blood, who kill. God . . . look into our hearts and Thou willst find love, enthusiasm, readiness for sacrifice. . . . Poland, freed from the swastika, has been captured by the hammer and sickle. Dachau and Buchenwald have been replaced by Siberian ice. . . . Poland will rise from the dead, so help us God! Amen...
...sometimes cruel letters," say Editors Kaufman & Hennessey, "[but] none of them is included . . . for the reason that they were withheld by their recipients." But this collection of Woollcott's letters is jampacked with anecdotes about Woollcott's distinguished friends & enemies, touching stories couched in the Little-Womanish prose that led MGM's Howard Dietz to rechristen his friend "Louisa M. Woollcott...
...woman." Grant Sweetland, the ne'er-do-well son of a rich St. Louis family, a drunkard who in his childhood had tortured small ani mals, was "loosely groomed, indifferently tailored," with "a soft, rather overheated look ... a cowlick which dipped damp-looking across his brow," soft, womanish hands and a silhouette which, while not paunchy, "had a curve to it." Middle-Aged Quivers. One day Lily B. met an old schoolmate and he asked her and Oleander to be the hostesses on a stag party to the Kentucky Derby. To her own and the reader's surprise...
...prosperity sphere": Lieut. General Masakazu Ka-wabe, Commander in Chief of Japanese forces in Burma, abolished his military administration; members of the "Burma Independence Preparatory Committee," established by the Japs six weeks earlier, were called to a meeting; the Committee quickly named itself a "National Assembly," and appointed wily, womanish Dr. Ba Maw Premier of Burma. It only remained for Ba Maw to sign a treaty of alliance pledging Burma to military, political and economic cooperation in the prosecution of the Greater East Asia war. Then the brave new Burma of Dr. Ba Maw declared...