Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Occasionally the pajamas are green instead of pink, but there are always pajamas and the woman is always blonde. Discontented New York wives shrink from the hoary tale, but the state law which permits divorce only on grounds of adultery leaves them no alternative. Chief sufferers are referees in divorce proceedings, forced to hear over & over the same old story of raid, surprised husband, pajama-clad blonde. Last week in Manhattan a referee rebelled. His victim was a woman famed in the U. S. and Europe for her different parties, indifferent singing...
Referee Cohalan frowned dangerously. "Women don't dress in crinoline or hoop skirts any longer." growled he. "They wear lounging pajamas. Just because a woman comes in and takes off her coat and puts on lingerie doesn't mean that she is about to commit adultery...
Just as if millions of distracted mothers did not already know, a young woman at Columbia University set out two years ago to discover What Children Talk About. Dr. Mary Shattuck Fisher selected 72 youngsters between the ages of 2 and 6. For three days, from arrival at nursery school until afternoon nap, stenographers tagged after the children taking down everything they said. In the case of. one garrulous 4-year-old, that meant 1,728 remarks. The most bashful 2-year-old contented himself with 200. Last week, having pored long over the stenographic transcripts, Dr. Fisher finally knew...
...week the Chicago Church Federation (300 Protestant ministers) was agitated over civil marriage as performed in their city. They learned that in Marriage Court in the County Building a couple could be united in ten seconds, by paying $5 and replying affirmatively to the question "Do you take this woman (or man) whose right hand you hold, to be your lawful wedded wife (or husband)?" This ceremony was denounced by Rev. Philip Yarrow, civic relations chairman of the Church Federation, as "a semi-racket, a hit & run affair." Said he: "They get a certificate with the big words 'Holy...
...smothered with a bed pillow and his corpse dragged into a cellar. A prostitute let out a blood-chilling scream as she was pushed to her death in an icy black lake. Yet as the heroine of Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mzensk (pronounced Muhzjensk), the woman responsible for these three atrocious murders was really a gentle soul whom only the sternest moralist would blame for her crimes...