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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April, General Denhardt was tried for murder. The jury disagreed. The dead woman had three brothers who muttered, but kept their own counsel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENTUCKY: Seven Bullets | 9/27/1937 | See Source »

Filipino males pay a head tax of $1 apiece. The tax receipts have been the means whereby voters are identified. Philippine President Manuel Quezon last week announced that he would veto the woman suffrage bill unless it imposed a poll tax on women, recommended 25? a head as a minimum tariff for Filipino females. Next day, while Filipino suffragettes sputtered with indignation that a tax should go with the right to vote, the National Assembly passed a bill which evaded the question of the poll tax by substituting a different method of identifying voters. If President Quezon signs it, Filipino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Peace on the Pasig | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...point of meeting Nudancer Sally Rand, who suggested he send her copies of his songs. When he got back to Pawtucket, Mr. Watson promptly dispatched them to her, said she could use them without charge in her act. Commented Mr. Watson: "I found she is a most maligned young woman: I don't know whether she is a college graduate or not, but there are few college graduates who can speak as well as Miss Rand. She is most modest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 20, 1937 | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...opportunity of imposing many of her personal prejudices as rules for contemporary and future generations to follow. Emily Bruce Price Post-who 30-odd years ago married and divorced Edwin Main Post, Manhattan banker and socialite-was but a comely divorcée somewhat in need of cash, a woman whose horizon was largely bounded by Newport and Park Avenue when she unwittingly wrote a book which was to make her fame and fortune. Today, at 64, she is a prosperous businesswoman whose horizon has been considerably broadened by her responsibility as autocrat of U. S. etiquette, by the impact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Autocrat of Etiquette | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

...need not on all occasions pay the check for a woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Autocrat of Etiquette | 9/20/1937 | See Source »

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