Word: womanizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...result was that the young woman was no more received by Mussolini. Weeks passed during which she wrote Il Duce letters that went unanswered. The automobile at her disposal was withdrawn and hotel bills accumulated unpaid. One morning she was found unconscious in her room after having taken an overdose of veronal. "She remained several days in a hospital. During that time Italian police seized her papers, notably her private diary in which her adventures with Mussolini were recorded. Mussolini, when shown the diary, was touched to see that what to him had been of no importance, had become...
...that not $790 but $75,000 was given Mile de Fontages-a sum which no statesman in thrifty Europe would ever have to part with to a journalistic strumpet. At latest reports wounded Count de Chambrun, ever the gallant diplomat of the old school, was refusing to have the woman who winged him prosecuted. Said the Countess de Chambrun, former Princess Murat: "This journalist often saw my husband when she was in Rome writing news stories. She certainly was suffering from hallucinations when she suddenly appeared at the station and shot a man who had always treated her with deference...
When I heard His Majesty's final words -'I cannot carry on without the woman I love-I realized I still had respect tor him. ... I had enough loyalty left for Edward to let me cease doing anything that might annoy...
...Clichy to form a procession to demonstrate in front of this thea tre!" Keeping steady, the police commander refused him such permission. At this, citizens of Clichy began flinging paving stones, empty bottles and a little fierce rioting began with brawny wenches active in baiting police to "strike a woman." By now the crowd was swelling to an ultimate 10,000 and something like a total of 3,000 police were moving up. Inside the Olympia about 300 Social Party members sat watching on the screen The Battle, while outside battle was already raging or about to rage. From...
...shock might kill her. Helen Love's brother helpfully recalled that soft, classical music had once brought her out of a similar fit. But none was available in the Los Angeles jail. Then a dapper psychiatrist named Dr. Samuel Morris Marcus took a hand. He rubbed the woman's eyelids, tickled her behind the ears. That caused her to twitch, to murmur: "Don't, Harry [the dead man], don't." But Mrs. Love did not wake up and doctors continued to nourish her through a vein with a solution of salt and sugar...