Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holocaust caused by the University's stand on the receiving of women into the Houses, the President and his sixteen cohorts asked for a rejection of the "sole woman" parietal rule and a revision and standardization of the old rule. Upon President Conant's return from Europe the suggestion was adopted with a slight modification --the requirement of two males for one woman. Shortly after this compromise the Council, publishing the results of the previous year's investigation, requested that all laboratories be opened at night and that the actual time required for experiments be definitely stated in the catalogue...
...Queen's bet on this comparative outsider had been based on more than a hunch. She had sentimentally hoped that victory would go to a woman owner for the first time in Derby history.* Mid-Day Sun is one of the two horses in the Hampshire stables of Mrs. Lettice Mary Talbot Miller, a 28-year-old brunette who inherited a $2,500,000 silk fortune from her great-uncle. About the least-known of all British racing owners, she seldom frequents race tracks, never bets a shilling. Mid-Day Sun, bought two years ago with Mrs. Miller...
Never more baffled, racing experts were further confounded that Sandsprite, the place horse, a 100-to-1 shot, was also owned by a woman, Mrs. F. Nagle of Reading, who never bets either...
...erotic, tormented mind of the late Playwright Frank Wedekind, a woman named Lulu was a symbol of insatiability. His two plays about her (Erdgeist and Büchse der Pandora) showed people helplessly racked by passion, preached: "Only children have reason; men are animals." Composer Alban Berg articulated the same opinion with his opera Wozzeck. When he based an opera on Wedekind's Lulu, Berg produced the most impressive monument of lust in all musical literature. When orchestral excerpts from it were played at the Berlin Staatsoper, extra police squads stood by to govern the crowds. Lulu was given...
High in the backwoods 14 miles from the Tennessee River opposite Guntersville, Ala. lived 75-year-old Grandma Georgia LeMaster, a shrunken little woman writh a thin, still face and hands like corded leather. Mrs. LeMaster set great store by her grandson's shepherd dog, a big black mongrel named Nero. One day last week, Nero was disporting himself on the public highway. Along came Houston Sims, driving over Grassy Mountain in his car. There was a yelp, and when Mrs. LeMaster got to the road, Nero was dying in the dust...