Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Angeles, oldtime Cinemactress Theo Carew, onetime leading lady for the late John Drew, pioneer woman aviator, penniless relict of the Marquis di Marcone, was caught stealing $2 worth of groceries...
Lenin's wife, Krupskaya, was an "ex-tremely plain woman, really ugly," who prompted Max Eastman to say: "Lenin would probably get well if he had a pretty girl!" In Paris, Poet McKay joined the expatriate throngs, caught a hacking cough by posing in the nude, was given a check to keep him three months in southern France by John Reed's widow, Louise Bryant. He gave up a job in Rex Ingram's Nice movie studio after chasing a co-worker with a knife, and wrote his sensational novel Home To Harlem. In Morocco, McKay...
...woman, hearing the young people talk revolution, and understanding only that "they" (the Communists) are goodhearted, will take care of everybody, gets her old cronies together, makes a revolutionary flag to send "them...
SPANISH PRELUDE - Jenny Ballou- Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). Sensitive, multi-charactered story portraying the intellectual and middle-class Spanish acquaintances of an American woman during the three years preceding King Alfonso's overthrow...
...CLIMBS-C. A. Tarrant- Lippincott ($2). A mousy little clerk accidentally becomes a gentlemanly crook by night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...