Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Unfortunately Denmark intimated rather strongly to the State Department that it did not want another woman minister. However, with W. Forbes Morgan, Treasurer of the Democratic National Committee, and Senate Leader Joseph T. Robinson as her sponsors, Mrs. Harriman's cause was in good hands. Norway, the first nation to grant woman suffrage, was an obvious post for a woman diplomat. Last week Norway had only to say "yes" in order to have Daisy Harriman show the Scandinavians how entertaining should be done in a U. S. legation...
...money and Mrs. Bok's money gave Philadelphia the Curtis Institute of Music. She is still its Lady Bountiful, hires the best teachers available, gives free tuition to all students, monthly stipends to those who need them. Far beyond Philadelphia Mrs. Bok is known as the woman who paid for Stokowski's famed productions there of Wozzeck and Oedipus Rex in 1931, his H. P. the next year. In 1934 she wrote the checks for Fritz Reiner's beautiful, expensive Tristan, his Rosenkavalier that critics called the best U. S. opera of the season. Last week operagoers...
...After its world premiere in Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...
...Gian-Carlo Menotti, one of the two great talents developed by Curtis, arranged the whole evening to give her protege a hearing. Though Amelia Al Ballo (Amelia Goes to the Ball) hardly justified her claims, it was full of glowing, facetious music admirably suited to the story of a woman who betrayed her lover, assaulted her husband and flirted with a policeman so as not to miss the big ball of the season. Young Menotti nowhere showed astonishing originality, certainly showed he could write better opera bouffe than any other man alive...
Virginia Woolf has been called "the best-equipped and the most disappointing woman novelist in the history of English literature." That she can be considered a disappointment indicates that she may be not just a highbrow writer but perhaps a great one. She is certainly the foremost woman author of her day. Her books are addressed not to a literary clique but to the Intelligent Common Reader. And the address is written in such a fine and flowing hand that even when it is illegible the hopeful addressee can find some profitable pleasure in puzzling over it. Even her obscurer...