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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Absent members of the Cabinet were Secretary of State Hull; Secretary of Labor Perkins who, being a woman, was not invited; Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who was tripping in the Midwest; Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, who has no taste for clambake politics, and Secretary of the Navy Swanson who, as usual, was ailing. Harry Hopkins and Rexford Tugwell went along for the sake of goodwill, as did George Peek, Frank Walker, T. Jefferson Coolidge, Charles Michelson, top men from many a board & bureau. The list also included John D. Reilly, president of Todd Shipyards Corp., Sidney Weinberg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Clubjellows | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...Regretted that the first woman M. P. remains so incurably trivial a headline-snatcher when Lady Astor, showing the neat ankle of a Langhorne of Virginia, introduced the topic of her openwork silk stockings. After publicly regretting that she has to import them from the U. S. and pay a stiff British duty, the Noble Lady was informed by Dr. Edward L. Burgin, Parliamentary Secretary of the Board of Trade, that she can "Buy British" openwork silk stockings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Parliament's Week: Jul. 22, 1935 | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...cleanly young woman of 22, whose fortune has been made by the most leering sort of dirt, faced three bewhiskered, twinkly-eyed Paris judges last week in the Palace of Justice while sweating press photographers cursed in the corridor because French Justice had locked them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Population v. Poetess | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...will made him sole executor as long as he did not remarry. Hendrickje could not read or write but she apparently loved Rembrandt. After her first child, she was expelled from her church. Rembrandt's Biblical subjects shifted from such as Samson Menacing His Father-in-Law to Woman Taken in Adultery. He also began to produce his magnificent landscapes, notable for their mountains, although Rembrandt never left The Netherlands, never saw a mountain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Amsterdam's Rembrandt | 7/22/1935 | See Source »

...their games was to throw stones into the water, crying "icbirikyū' bābirikyū'p" so that the last syllable coincided exactly with the splash. Little Crow girls played house, enjoyed the women's game of shinny. Dice was also considered a woman's game. Gray- bull spoke of squaws who were always shooting dice with the impatient air of a white husband complaining about his wife's bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Old Crow | 7/15/1935 | See Source »

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