Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Twenty-one-year-old Katherine Stammers, No. 3 British woman tennist: the semi-finals of the Kent Championship, defeating 28-year-old Helen Wills Moody 6-0, 6-4. First player ever to win a love set from longtime Champion Moody, in retirement since 1933, Miss Stammers graciously attributed her victory to the fact that Mrs. Moody "wasn't anywhere near her top." Next day Miss Stammers lost to England's No. 1. Dorothy Round. Unaltered was Mrs. Moody's plan for a comeback at Wimbledon next week...
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON: Beloved teacher and learned scholar, a former member of our faculty, now a leader in a vital experiment in education--the training of the college woman of today...
Mourned His Grace recently: "I had not a care in the world before my second marriage but my position is different now. I am married to a woman who has never owed a penny in her life. She does not understand how one comes to incur debts. I am worried because the Duchess is worried. Otherwise, I would not have a single care in the world." In sombre mood last week His Grace was led out of Wormwood Scrubs Prison, promptly had himself declared bankrupt once more and vanished from London, his lawyers announcing, "The Duke of Manchester is resting...
...News Adviser" Howey would fill a bang-up book, had already tilled a feverish play, The Front Page. For Walter Howey is the man Playwrights Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur had in mind when they presented the character Walter Burns-the tough, smooth Chicago managing editor who stole the dead woman's stomach from the coroner's physician to prove she was poisoned; who scooped the town on a jailbreak, caught the mayor in skulduggery, shanghaied his ace reporter from his honeymoon all in three dizzy acts...
...major Irish Hospitals Sweepstakes prizes of $148,500 each on the Epsom Derby, seven were won by Americans. Most preposterous winner was a Brooklyn woman named Anna Hyman, wife of the proprietor of a picayune leather company, who has made a practice of investing $20 in every sweepstakes she has heard about, with no success whatever. Informed that Bahram had won, Mrs. Hyman revealed that she had sold a half interest in her ticket for $40,000. Said she: "I'd certainly like to travel on that big ship, Normandie...