Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Wallis Warfield Spencer Simpson was Woman of 1936, but the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, with the assistance of Herr Hitler and Mr. Bedaux, eliminated themselves as completely as possible from an important place in the history of 1937. Their names would scarcely have been mentioned in print at year end, had not London's blatant Daily Express been filled by a story of how the Duchess sent a doll last week to the Miners' Federation of South Wales where King Edward VIII once popularized himself, declaring "Something must be done for Wales!" (TIME...
...last fortnight a chic, puckish young woman with bright black eyes and thick black bangs who practices several arts with ability and calls herself a "mime" (she pronounces it "meem") had a show of gouaches and drawings in Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries, gave her first Manhattan's theatre performances of the season and published her first book.* Pretty well shot by this triple demonstration was a ten-year-old, popular suspicion that Angna Enters is merely highbrow...
...childlike, as when she remarks that all Spaniards spit. Far from childlike, however, are the rich and strange characters she has imagined, costumed and made live in pantomime: a sultry, majestic Spanish girl of the 16th Century dancing the slow Pavana; a tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that in the 12th Century the Virgin Mary was more popular than...
...through much of the previous night for the polls to open. These earliest comers were reported in most cases to be elderly men and women. Vigorous young Russians, confident of being able to shove through the crowds, mostly arrived "late"-that is not until early morning. Many an old woman was reported to have exclaimed after casting her ballot, "I had a terrible headache before-but now it is gone. I feel so much better since I have been able to vote for Stalin...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one night last week an angular young woman in black with an enormous white shawl collar gripped a microphone, spoke with warm, smiling emphasis to an assemblage of some 400 U. S. artists and six times as many followers of the arts. Of all speakers of the evening, Erika Mann had the simplest and to many listeners the most significant words to justify the second American Artists' Congress. They were a message from her father, Thomas Mann: "One frequently hears it said that the artist should stick to his own craft, and that...