Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...keep beauty parlors busy through Depression. Her humor, overlooked by Hughes, was recognized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight and Bombshell, Jean Harlow has paradoxically made herself a symbol for the kind of allure which her appearance naturally suggests by ridiculing it. She was blithely hailed as a femme fatale until the suicide of her second husband, Paul Bern, made this...
...Astor got himself Box No. 7 on the left wing of the Golden Horseshoe. Son John Jacob and Grandson Vincent successively inherited it. Last week handsome Mrs. Vincent Astor, who has done good work as a money-raiser for the Philharmonic-Symphony, was elected a Metropolitan director, the third woman on the board.* Manager Johnson: "We have won a great victory...
Founder and high priestess of the Apostolic Faith is an indomitable white-haired woman named "Mother" Florence Louise Crawford, 63. She believes that God spoke to her in 1906 when, twice married and the mother of two, she was dancing. "I did not know the voice of God and went on in the dance. . . . My feet became heavy and the place was no longer beautiful to me. Again the voice spoke much louder, 'Daughter, give me thine heart!' The music died away and I left the ballroom; and for three days and nights I prayed and wept...
...generations with such a drawing as Bridget's Dream, a nightmarish wedding of nightshirts, handkerchiefs, sunbonnets and bed socks (see cut). Generally however, he preferred historical scenes like the Opening of the Erie Canal or The Casting of the Liberty Bell. The Professor viewed the problem of woman suffrage with considerable alarm. He did a satirical series of pictures on the Triumph of Women's Rights. Typical was the scene at the polling place (see cut), where female ward heelers, one in pants, make life miserable for an unfortunate male...
...them. At Brighton the young prince found congenial companions-most of them enemies of his father-and with them raced horses, chased girls, picked quarrels, went shooting at chimney-pots. He fell violently in love with Mrs. Fitzherbert, twice widowed at the age of 25. A gentle, reserved woman and a devout Catholic, she did not approve of his wild behavior. In 1785, to prove his sincerity, he married her secretly, thus establishing a royal mystery which was not solved until the discovery of the official marriage documents in 1905. The rumor of his marriage spread at a time when...