Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...awards of this Committee in the field of literature, within the past few years have been blind and undiscriminating. This year's choices were no exception. Despite the approving babble of occupants of University chairs in poetics on its announcement, the poetry award went to a woman, a sort of minor Edna Millay, whose poems are completely negligible. They are readable and sufficiently sentimental to be a popular choice; they have a certain dexterity and gloss, often substituted for technical superiority and thought, easily overcoming the defences of mediocre critics, but they are hopelessly trivial. These triumphs in the treble...
There's Always a Woman (Joan Blondell, Melvyn Douglas; TIME, April...
...late Marshall Field and curator of physical anthropology at the Field Museum, had given a party with a friend at their Lake Shore Drive apartment. Guests, asked to bring live animals, turned up with a deodorized skunk, a singing duck, two colored baby chickens worn on a woman's hat, a white rat which bore a litter of ten during the party. Anthropologist Field's contributions: 1) a seal which he could not get into the freight elevator; 2) an un- housebroken, pregnant camel, whose nuisances were observed by tenants on the floor below...
University of Chicago women are oftener cited for their brains than for their beauty. The undergraduate magazine Pulse complained recently that "there hasn't been a beautiful woman on the Midway since Little Egypt reared her skirts in 1893." At this admission Northwestern University students guffawed. Aroused Chicagoans decided to nail the canard by finding and proclaiming Chicago's prettiest girl. Last week, after pondering many pictures from a photographer's files, the three judges assigned to the job picked an indubitable stunner, Joy Hawley. Too late they discovered that Miss Hawley's picture had slipped...
Although it got badly burnt in its search for a beautiful woman (see above), University of Chicago last week found oil to soothe its smarts. Oil has been the University's sustenance from birth. Of its $121,000,000 assets, $78,000,000 came from the Rockefellers. In the 1890s the University was called a subsidiary of Standard Oil Co., was twitted in an apocryphal alma mater song: "Praise John, from whom oil blessings flow." Last week University of Chicago struck oil on a tract of land it owns in Olney, Ill,* and began to collect royalties...