Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...charge that he had been peeking in the window of a young woman recently was dropped when it was found that he had been in Flint, Michigan for the last two weeks...
...Gilberia Faust as Fulton's (the hero's) mother-in-law. Her vanity and crabbed selfishness are drawn to perfection. Jessamine Newcombe as Fulton's wife does well in a none too flashy role. Elaine Tilson acquits herself nobly in the slightly ludicrous role of the attractive young woman who sneaks into the stodgy hero's room at night to hear him read Tennyson and makes a pretty direct plea for his affections. But Francesea Lenni as Fulton's daughter, the center and cause of most of his troubles, is singularly awkward and amateurish in the rendition of most...
...rule and never the exception. To appreciate the greatness of Charlotte Bronie's achievement, it is necessary to realize what audacity she displayed in the face of the stern early Victorian period. She shocked her contemporaries by revealing a heroine consumed with passion and broke the traditional theory that woman could only be the loved and not the lover. Though the situation used in the novel had been used many times before, the theme was radical. The former shows a young woman entering life under social disadvantages, which she overcomes in the end by returning to marry Rochester. The latter...
First great denunciation of the Good Will Court came from New York's most literate Radio editor, spectacled Aaron Stein of the Post. Said he: "This hour ... is not entertainment and it is not art. When a woman comes to the microphone and tells the story of her son, who, although she is convinced of his innocence, is accused of counterfeiting, her address to the microphone is not a performance. When she breaks down, her agonized cries are not subject to criticism. No question of technique is involved to determine whether they filter through the microphone with a tone...
...Prize Novel Competition (TIME, Sept. 7, Oct. 26). Sponsored by Farrar & Rinehart, Eric Pinker & Adrienne Morrison, the Literary Guild, Warner Brothers and by publishers in ten other countries, the All-Nation's Competition carried a first prize of $19,000. This grand prize was won by a Hungarian woman, onetime secretary in the Hungarian Embassy in Egypt, with this clever, smooth novel written from a thoroughly international point of view. Chief distinction of The Street of the Fishing Cat is the ingenuity with which representatives of most of the European nations are drawn into its plot, the blistering irony...