Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When man was man and woman simply woman...
...then invites them over for Sunday dinner. He seasons his great portion of kindliness and human understanding with a splendid vein of gruffness and stingless sarcasm. He manages to preserve enough austerity to keep up the discipline until three females appear on the scene; the sister of the woman, now dead, whom he should have married, and that woman's three daughters, aged twenty, eighteen, and fourteen. Then the old sentimental story of ordered bachelorhood's being shot to pieces by arch femininity is once more retold, with delightful complications...
During the course of the open discussion it was revealed the College cooks had started the movement for better working conditions. A woman labor organizer followed up the remarks by declaring that Harvard workers were "just about as exploited as any people in the nation...
...Another woman pointed out to enthusiasts the desirability of a 30-hour week. "Why not?" she said. "If there is anything you want the union will give it to you." Advantages gained by membership in the group may well provide opportunities for a trip to the Cape, "or perhaps to England or Ireland where your ancestors came from...
Gulla Slogum was a mean woman, even for the tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor...