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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adapted by John Dos Passos from a novel by Pierre Louys, filmed in Director von Sternberg's best darkly sardonic style, The Devil Is a Woman is a slow, rococo anecdote about the vicious sex-life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...appeared with eight pairs of lifelike, flesh tinted, before-&-after models of faces which he had repaired, and two similar pairs of hands. He displayed colored lantern slides of dozens of before-&-after faces. Lastly he ran off a colored movie* of an operation to repair a young woman's paralyzed features. The policemen grunted and whistled as they saw Dr. Sheehan inject novocaine and slice the conscious girl's head from eyebrow to ear, nick a rent at the corner of her lips. The girl's chest heaved as Dr. Sheehan's hands pulled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Plastic Surgeon | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

Born. To Mrs. Ambrose Harrison of Toronto: a son, her 14th child, her 8th since 1926, when Charles Millar died bequeathing some $500,000 to that Toronto woman who should bear the most children in the ensuing decade. Still in the lead in this babe-stakes are Mrs. Frances Lillian Kenny (eleven), Mrs. Grace Bagnato (nine) (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, May 13, 1935 | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

...Hebrides they visited her, and she and the old lexicographer hit it off from the first. His typical tribute to her was inscribed on her tomb: "A name that will be mentioned in history, and if courage and fidelity be virtues, mentioned with honour. She is a woman of middle stature, soft features, gentle manners, and elegant presence." Safe back in France after his fiasco, Prince Charlie became a young-man-about-Paris. Author Mackenzie says that Charles, like his ancestress Mary. Queen of Scots, was "essentially cold sexually," but women liked him nevertheless. His liaison with Mme de Talmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bonny Prince | 5/13/1935 | See Source »

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