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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman who can "charm" a sad King into a cheerful smile deserves praises, instead of criticisms. Mrs. Ernest Simpson is beautiful, young, slim and graceful. She is a socialite and has the good sense to add her husband on all her outings with royalty* With all the titled women in the realm to entertain him, King Edward VIII shows an artistic appreciation in selecting a young married woman, and a clever American, to entertain him during his long hours of bereavement. He has traveled all over the world and yet only an American woman can "charm" him, socially...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1936 | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...Composition of the Federal Legislature, partially appointed by Viceroy and Princes, partially indirectly elected from the provinces, is likewise a complicated affair. Its seats are constitutionally apportioned among fixed numbers of Hindus (including the "depressed" classes), Moslems Britons, Indian Christians, Sikhs, Anglo-Indians, representatives of Landholders, Commerce & Industry, Labor, Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Partnership & Co-Operation | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

...couldn't give her husband a baby, so decided to give him a chance with somebody else. His not wanting that chance didn't make any difference. This is all very well, except that the solution as presented on the stage is biologically unsound, as at least every woman in the audience must have noticed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 10/10/1936 | See Source »

Paragraphs like this, appearing daily last week under the heading DRESS TO FIT YOUR TYPE on the woman's page of the Hearst Chicago Herald & Examiner, differed from the accepted standards of such journalism in two notable respects: 1) readers applying for the questionnaire were charged 25? for answers; 2) name signed to the column was that of no hack journalist, but of Irene Castle McLaughlin, America's pre-War Glamor Girl, now a Chicago socialite and that city's most noted dog-lover. From each 25? fee collected, Mrs. McLaughlin gets a portion. Questioners are also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Castle Column | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

...cold wintry morning pretty, ineffectual Marcia Ward opened her door to a pale, grey-eyed peddler who promptly took charge of the household. Beginning by baking a pie despite Marcia's protests, the peddler, whose name was Hannah Parmalee and who was obviously a cultivated woman beneath her dowdy exterior, launched a series of domestic reforms that saved the harassed Ward family. She cleaned out the basement and sold the unused furniture for $39. She found a cheaper way of buying coal. She persuaded little Wallie Ward to take his castor oil. (She put it in front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Peddler's Progress | 10/5/1936 | See Source »

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