Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family. This performance was taken to be a retort pious to the Archbishops of England and a clincher on the pastor of Vienna's English Church, Rev. Dr. C. D. H. Grimes, to perform the wedding of David Windsor some time next spring to the Woman...
Into Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel one morning last week rushed a svelte young woman in a Chinese otter coat, carrying in her arms a small, kicking, whining bundle of black & white fur. Said she to a room clerk: "I am Mrs. William H. Harkness and this is my baby panda...
...body in front, not a scar on his back. Of him it could be said 'he never feared the face of any man.'" Some Brisbanalities: "The best cart horse in the world can't beat the worst race horse." "There is more in any woman than any man can learn in 50 lifetimes." "A sneeze not nearly violent enough to dislocate an arm will always kill many millions of germs...
...exactly what its title suggests. Halfway through scene i, Playwright Boothe makes a distinction between Women and Females. Mary Haines (Margalo Gillmore), a gracious and home-loving blonde with one husband, two children and a heart filled with anxiety about reaching the shady side of 30, is a woman. Most of the rest of The Women are females, belonging to Manhattan's restaurant and rotogravure set. Disclosed in bathrooms, ladies' rooms, beauty parlors and maternity wards, safe from the eyes and ears of their menfolk, they talk, as men never hear them, about clothes, nail polish, money...
...advice hour in which Novelist Fannie Hurst was to counsel unfortunates, the Good Will Court had become a forum in which selected wretches told their troubles to real judges from the lower courts, who then dealt out free advice. A classic case was that of a young married woman who had met a "boyfriend" and made a "mistake." The resulting baby was disclaimed both by the woman's husband and by her acquaintance. Another woman convulsed Good Will Court listeners by wanting to cancel her husband's interest in a joint cemetery plot because he was serving...