Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disagreement came when the store's department heads saw Macena Barton's $1,000 Modern Olympia, a reclining, nude young woman with scarlet toenails and a small, black crucifix. The model, Cati Mount, had been one of the attractions at Chicago's Century of Progress, but the Executive Committee well knew that the picture would offend their pious, Roman Catholic boss, tall, white-haired Dennis Francis Kelly, who was trusting his subordinates to keep things in order while he vacationed in California. Another shocker was the angry Ration Box and Crucifix, in which Artist Adrian Troy expressed...
...year-old tradition holds that no woman may enter Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Mass, on Commencement Day. Last week Mrs. Mary Curley Donnelly, 25-year-old daughter of Massachusetts' Governor James Michael Curley, broke the tradition by driving her automobile into the Yard behind her father's as he arrived for the ceremonies. An official quickly caught Mrs. Donnelly, led her out. John J. Appel of Teaneck, N. J. found in his bungalow a 15-lb. snapping turtle with "Alf Landon" painted on its back. To commemorate the 150th anniversary of Lynchburg, Va.'s city charter...
Announced Flyer Amelia Earhart to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention at Tulsa, Okla.: "In flying at higher altitudes the effect of drinking is much more pronounced, the 'hangover' lasts longer...
Died. Edward Howland Robinson Green, 67, uninhibited son of the late miserly Hetty Green, onetime world's richest woman; in Lake Placid, N. Y. Believing that "the best way to get pleasure out of money is to spend it," he would pay his eleven foster-daughters 15? a page for typewriting, then tear up the pages...
...dominated by her hatred and fear of the French Republic, by her determination to lead Naples in a holy war against France. She was encouraged in this suicidal plan by the English, particularly by Lady Hamilton, wife of the English Ambassador, Nelson's mistress, a huge, handsome, hearty woman who had been picked up in a London brothel only a few years before. It was commonly believed that Lady Hamilton's influence over the Queen was the result of a perverse relationship. The court was one of the most corrupt in Europe. Yet revolutionists like Fernando did little...