Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shaking advice did the President have to give but he won loud applause when he declared: "Can we, the republics of the New World, help the Old World to avert the catastrophe which impends? Yes, I am confident we can," and again when he cried: "Let no man or woman forget that there is no profit in war." Loud bravos and applause followed his conclusion. Four days after this thrilling start, the delegates managed to recover their composure, organize their Conference, hear Secretary of State Hull propound his metaphoric "Pillars of Peace...
Perhaps most striking of all is the way in which this change was effected. Previous publicity of an unfortunate nature, resulting from several mishaps during the past two years, necessitated a tightening of the parietal rules. For want of a better method, the "two-woman" plan was instituted and was immediately condemned on every side. Backed by a large majority of the undergraduates, the CRIMSON came out strongly against the rule and conducted a poll to determine the exact amount of adverse sentiment...
Before bringing the interview to a close, the reporters could not resist the temptation to ask Mr. Coward's opinion of the Two Women parietal rule. In his suave and characteristically witty manner, he replied, "Why, I should think that one woman at a time should be sufficient for any Harvard student...
...that painful masterpiece, The Education of Henry Adams, Adams ought to be famed as the author of one of the least gallant letters a prospective bridegroom ever wrote about his future wife. On March 26, 1872, the young grandson of John Quincy Adams informed an English friend: "The young woman calls herself Marian Hooper and belongs to a sort of clan, as all Bostonians do. . . . She is certainly not handsome; nor would she be quite called plain, I think. She is twenty-eight years old. She knows her own mind uncommon well. . . . She talks garrulously, but on the whole pretty...
...colonial service, the future of the East, revolution and the consequences of the cinema lowering white prestige before the yellow races. When at last he met Amai, with his friends waiting nearby and much of the native village looking on, he found her a grave, well-preserved, attentive woman who said politely that she had heard he was rich and successful. They exchanged formal comments about their careers, and the self-conscious traveler, feeling a little ridiculous and more concerned than ever about the prestige of the white race, hurried on to visit Java, Bali, Sumatra, Macassar, and other island...