Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago these epic headlines blared forth from the front page of the London Sunday Referee, lurid weekly beloved by Britain's masses. Billed as a "Sunday Referee Special," the startling story related how "a peasant woman, forty-two years of age, sits in Triboure, a lonely little village on a spur of the Pyrenees. Her foot rocks a cradle in which lie-SIX FULL-SIZED NORMAL BABIES. SHE GAVE BIRTH TO THEM IN ONE DAY SEVEN MONTHS AGO." The reason this amazing news had been so long reaching the world, explained the Referee, was that "there...
...India two months ago, a merchant named Rai Bahadur Ramjidas Bajoria, believing that he had not slept for two years, offered $10,000 to anyone who would restore his ability to sleep normally (TIME, March 9). In Hungary there is a woman of 80 who says she has been continuously awake since 1911. Such people are either lying or they do not realize that they doze off while "resting." The chief physiological result of going without sleep is exhaustion, and utter exhaustion causes death. Dogs have been kept awake until they died. The best authentic record is that...
Even without that endorsement, there was no danger that Education Before Verdun would lack readers, but whether it. too, would take its place among modern classics was more dubious. The third of Author Zweig's tetralogy-in-progress (Young Woman of 1914, Education Before Verdun, The Case of Sergeant Grischa, The Crowning of a King-the last yet to appear), but the second in his time scheme, Education Before Verdun seeks to repeat Sergeant Grischa's case in terms of the Western Front. Perhaps because its inhumanly terrible story is not so concentrated, the sympathy it arouses...
Fifteen years ago, at the age of 35, Author Strong arrived in Russia with the Quaker relief unit. Long a social reformer, this large, white-haired energetic woman remained to help build up the new regime, give it publicity, organize various cultural enterprises, of which the Moscow Daily News has prospered most markedly. In 1932 she surprised friends on both sides of the Atlantic by marrying a gentle little Soviet agricultural expert...
...WOMAN ALIVE-Susan Ertz-Appleton-Century ($2). Recommended particularly for women pacifists, this sketch of the world in 1985 is a bitter indictment of male stupidity. Author Ertz foresees a civilization which has mastered the art of living but still resorts to war. Following the use of a new type of poison gas in a short but destructive international conflict, all females but one die of a mysterious disease, leaving the men in wild despair. The accidental survivor becomes queen of England and hope of the world...