Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After five months spent covering nearly all of Europe, able New York Times-woman Anne O'Hare McCormick last week returned to the U. S. keynoting "the imperturbable optimism of Great Britain, which worries less than any nation on earth." That plenty of Britons were deliberately taking a humorous view of the European Crisis was a major fact in London last week. In the House of Commons, however, more seriousness was in evidence. In awful dignity the Prime Minister arose and spoke. "I do not deny," came Neville Chamberlain's solemn admission, "that my original belief...
...Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says is remarkably witty...
Even after Solange has been introduced, and her love affair is approaching a climax, de Montherlant stops the story to write a leisurely essay on happiness. Men, he says, have a negative conception of happiness. But "a woman will say to you that she is happy as she will say to you that she is warm or cold. 'What are you thinking?' 'That I am happy.' ... A woman who is happy and loved (and who loves) asks for nothing more. A man who loves and is loved needs something else as well. . . . Man seldom feels anything...
...Czechoslovakia by making the Rome-Berlin Axis stretch uninterruptedly from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, the problem last week was whether Moscow from the east will strike across Poland or Rumania to aid Prague. Orator Hitler has compared himself to a somnambulist and last week he advanced like a woman in her sleep unerringly to the wallet in which Czechoslovakia's President Eduard Benes may be said metaphorically to keep his treaty with Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin...
Before the news was very old the U. S. public was enjoying the zestful pastime of casting Producer Selznick's picture for him. Before very long Producer Selznick knew the people's choice for Rhett Butler to be cinema's No. 1 buckaroo-bold, woman-handling Actor Clark Gable. But the people's choice for Scarlett O'Hara was far from unanimous. It seemed to call for a blend of gusty Tallulah Bankhead, smoldering Miriam Hopkins, redheaded Erin O'Brien-Moore, flashing Paulette Goddard. For Scarlett, Producer Selznick scanned one after another...