Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foreign newspaper correspondents, especially Americans, have the habit of mixing entirely too much with their own kind, and instead of getting the point of view of the man in the street, they absorb each other's impressions. Inevitably they tend to make a hero of the man or woman who gives them news and this is a great error...
...first of the double bill at Keith Memorial Victor Moore and Helen Broderick give their usual clever performance to hold together a weak and long-drawn adaptation of "Ladies of the Jury." The plot, for all those who are not acquainted with it, is another development of the old woman's-intuition-to-decide-a-woman's-fate attitude taken by American juries, and makes use of the usual Moore antics to prove that the jury decided a cause upon anything except the evidence. Unfortunately for the logic of the burlesque, the jury decides right, the true murderer is discovered...
...alleged reason for the many divorces of today is "incompatibility," and it would seem to us that any course which can aid a man and a woman to make a go at that very difficult branch of living is exceptionally valuable. Since men are needed as well as women to make a happy marriage, and since we are sure that if the editors of the "Crimson" took the trouble to investigate, they would find that marriage is an aim of more than a few of the students, we suggest that they do not attempt to mock a lecture course offering...
...novel application in "physiological and psychological" fields of the axiom "From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs." Perhaps Misses Long and Rogers have made a most constructive suggestion to break down the old "incompatibility" that used to arise when only one man and a woman were needed to make a happy marriage...
...think they are being made game of. Certainly neither the nice Mr. Santayana nor even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...