Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marine band. An hour later Manila's brightly lighted water front was suddenly plunged into pitch darkness. The dock on which the refugees were standing in confused groups began to shake. With a terrifying roar the roof above split apart. "They're bombing us again!" screamed a woman refugee. Another shrieked: "Is this another...
...Graz, Styria, Austria, one Johann Fuchs, accused of killing a woman of whose child he was the father, came to trial at 9 a. m. in one of the Austrian emergency courts originally established in 1934 to combat political terrorism, pleaded guilty, was sentenced at 11 a. m., was executed...
...newspaper business when she went, as a bride, to Cherokee, Okla., where she helped her young husband run the weekly Republican. She learned about the home when three rapidly growing children came to the Fergusons. She combined the fruits of both experiences to write a column, "From a Woman's Viewpoint," which has been a successful feature in the Scripps-Howard dailies for more than a decade. Her column is a spirited, folksy discussion of anything that pops into her mind, from jelly-making to the problems of business girls...
There is nothing a cop likes better than to catch someone in a lie. Our favorite instance of this sort is the time a traffic policeman in the town of North Woodstock, New Hampshire, stopped a car for speeding. The driver was a woman. "Where you from?" the cop demanded. "Philadelphia," replied the lady. The cop put on a wise look and nodded his head. "Oh, so you're from Philadelphia, eh?" he said, sarcastically. "Well, if you're from Philadelphia, whatcha doin' with them Pennsylvania licence plates...
...roundup produced seven individuals as mysterious as Serafimov, who traveled together until further machinations caused a further splitting up of their ranks. Serafimov's victim was a fastidious, ratlike Belgian named Goupillière. A murderer himself, Goupillière's face was "as subtle as a woman's, as ambiguous as a thief's," since it was divided by an ugly scar left when a mistress had tried to kill him with a pair of scissors. Through the months of their captivity in Aqsu, he subtly goaded Serafimov to madness, yet achieved his own spiritual...