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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Down to her new office in Trenton bright & early went the only woman bank president in New Jersey and probably the prettiest bank president in the land. Her election to that job in Trenton Trust Co. was no gushing matter to green-eyed, graceful Mary Gindhart Roebling. Briskly she got the jump on local newshawks by asking them if they were depositors in Trenton Trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...Roebling, rich grandson of Col. Roebling and vice president of John A. Roebling's Sons Co. in Trenton. Siegfried Roebling died a year ago, leaving his wife among other things a large stock interest in Trenton Trust Co. No stranger to authority, Madam President Roebling is the only woman representative on New Jersey's new State Unemployment Compensation Commission, finance chairman of Trenton's Maternal Health Center, director of the Mercer County Health League. No lover of publicity, she is careful to point out that there are about 4,500 women officers in U. S. banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Personnel: Feb. 15, 1937 | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...hands on, calls his report the fullest to date. Much of that report was of interest only to historians and architects, but some of it makes eye-opening reading to vicarious snoopers and plain monogamists. Says Mr. Penzer: The harem was not a man's paradise but a woman's world, "governed with the utmost deliberation and care, not by a man at all, but by a woman." That was the Sultan Valide, the Sultan's mother. No. 2 was neither man nor woman, but the Kislar Agha, the Chief Black Eunuch, "the most feared, and consequently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women & No-Men | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

...recent date is indicated by the story of the diver sent down to investigate a wreck off Seraglio Point, who immediately signalled to be drawn up again, explained that "at the bottom of the sea was a great number of bowing sacks, each containing the dead body of a woman, standing upright on the weighted end and swaying slowly to and fro with the current." The number of children produced by harem mothers, and consequently the number of potential heirs to the Sultanate, made the problem of succession a congested one. Murad III, Sultan of the harem's boom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Women & No-Men | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

Outcast (Paramount). Though acquitted of murdering a woman who died of an overdose of sedative, Dr. Jones (Warren William) is disgraced, forced to retire to a small town where his name is unknown and where he can begin life anew with the help of old Lawyer Abbott (Lewis Stone). But Margaret Stevens (Karen Morley), sister-in-law of the dead woman, follows Dr. Jones, bent on revenge. She falls in love with him instead, is about to depart when her meddlesome landlady learns about the murder trial publishes the story in the village newspaper. Simultaneously, the landlady's little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Outcast | 2/15/1937 | See Source »

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