Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kaaay." Senator Ashurst, the soul of oldtime gallantry, would hardly be so rude as to argue against a lady, but it so happened that the arguments he rose to refute were last week most strikingly expressed by a woman. Columnist Dorothy Thompson (whose husband, Sinclair Lewis, wrote It Can't Happen Here) wrote...
...Stockton, Calif, insane asylum last week died a fat old woman with wild white hair and a lame hip. She had been locked up for nearly half a century, happily certain that she was a great, rich lady, babbling endlessly about her memories. She could never keep her story straight, sometimes asserting that she had been married to President Lincoln and General Grant, or that the King of Italy was her foster father, or that she owned the Republic of Guatemala. But the daft old crone was not to be pitied, for she had lived greatly once and her true...
...some thousands of years hence, a group of archaeologists searching for traces of the lost civilization of America should unearth a few reels of "Career Woman," they would undoubtedly come to the conclusion that twentieth century standards of entertainment in this country were at an all-time low. This film, starring Claire Trevor, is a rambling account of a girl who wants to be a lawyer. The piece goes on and on, finally stopping of its own accord when it becomes tired...
...parents, their hardships, and their attempts to reconcile their elders is not a particularly new theme--and it can be deadly if the soft soap is laid on too thick. Yes so charming is the naivete of the three smart girls who plot to get rid of "The other woman" and pave the way to reconciliation between their parents, that an air of reality is lent this plot which otherwise might well have been left in moth balls...
Died. Samuel Shipman, 53, prolific Broadway playwright; of heart disease; in Manhattan. A cynical melodramatist who said he made $1,500,000 in 1918-22 from East Is West, Friendly Enemies, Lawful Larceny and The Woman in Room 13, he frequently dictated his plays to stenographers working in shifts. In a speedwriting contest with the late Edgar Wallace, he completed The Lady Must Be Found in 38½ hr., but lost to Wallace's Ocean Liner...