Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reeve was my father and many a time I have heard him say: "There is one woman of the U. S. to whom a monument ought to be erected and I hope that it will be done some day." And then he would tell me the story of the first ovariotomy [performed by Dr. Ephraim McDowell on Mrs. Jane Todd Crawford in 1809 (TIME, June 10)]. If he knew the name of the patient I do not recall that he said it, but I remember well his admiration of Dr. McDowell...
...such jewels as they have to show. This year the Lord Chamberlain has been dutifully hinting the royal pleasure to dowagers and debutantes, but with scant result at the season's first two Royal Courts. Last week the Queen-Empress, not wishing to be the only low-necked woman at the last two Royal Courts, had the Lord Chamberlain's Office issue this mandatory ukase: "Ladies attending Their Majesties' Courts must wear low evening dresses...
Deep Dark River begins when Mary Winston, well-born Southern lady, only woman lawyer in Clarksville, Miss., accepts a routine case growing out of a shyster lawyer's theft of a Negro client's cow, is quickly involved in a complex and dangerous intrigue, uncovers a plot to hang an innocent and friendless Negro. Honest, stubborn, self-respecting, acutely conscious of her social and moral responsibilities, Mary has already made enemies by her interference with those who have lived by petty exploitation of Negro ignorance and fear, does not shrink from the more hazardous task of defending Mose...
...people. Much less neurotic than unhappy wives, they drive wholeheartedly to their own ends, seldom ask or accept advice. They like chess and inventors. They chafe at regimentation, avoid picnics and excursions but go to dances and formal parties, can have fun doing and seeing things alone. "[The divorced woman's] personality," the investigators conclude, "lacks the element of sweet femininity but commands respect for its rugged strength, self-sufficiency and detached tolerance...
Catherine was the second of three daughters; her mother was a long-suffering woman who shared her daughters' adoration for their father, a wife-beating drunkard who had brought back a wooden leg from the war. As the children grew up, the eldest became a zealous partner in her father's milk business, but the two younger ones, Catherine and Angele, each dreamed of the boy who was to marry her some day. At last he came, disguised as an old toymaker. Thereafter he appeared in various guises, but he finally turned out to be the long-lost...