Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plot of the story surrounds the cruel legalized murder of Briget Bishop and the accusations and attempts made on her daughter Mary. Born in a country where a woman might call her soul her own, and not be accused of witchcraft because she had certain marks on her body which every woman was not afflicted with, Briget fights her way through the terrors of a trial and an execution to preserve the reputation of her daughter and save her from a mad people who knew not what they...
...grand opera. She suffers such violent emotions, has to sing such grueling high passages, that few singers have ever made her sound convincing. Wagner used to pace the floor in anguish while writing Brünnhilde's songs. Time and again he asked himself whether any woman alive would be equal to them. Last week's audience again marveled at Kirsten Flagstad's command of the role, the way she used her strong, rich voice to convey Brünnhilde's unutterable happiness with Siegfried, her rage at being betrayed, the grimness with which she sought...
...head over heels in love with him, became his mistress. She grew so careless in her passion that people began to talk; nearly everyone but Michael suspected what was up. When Tom got restive, wanted to break off the affair, Julia was beside herself. But she was a sensible woman, after all. She let him go, got over it somehow, then set about making the new play a success. In one of the best bits of acting in her career she made a triumphant comeback, incidentally showing up the young actress for whom Tom had left her. Tom came crawling...
...petitioners stated that they were led to draw it up in imitation of Vassar's course on the subject by the feeling that "man is quite as important as woman to marriage", and that there should be "practical rather than theoretical instruction on the actual problem faced by man in marriage...
...University this week is a cleverly worked out mystery yarn, "The Case of the Black Cat", with Ricardo Cortez and Marsha Hunt in the leading roles. The death of an infirm old recluse in a fire, and its connection with the subsequent death by violence of a woman in an apartment house form the basis of the plot...