Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Lee is a member of the Independent Labor Party and has the distinction of being the first woman socialist admitted to the English bar. Following her graduation from Edinburgh, she taught school and carried on campaign work during election time. In 1929 she was elected to Parliament...
Broker Pierce is the central, animating force of E. A. Pierce & Co., but it is a woman who holds the system together. Brown haired, feminine, with a sturdy but pleasing personality, Miss Ethel F. Mercereau is probably the most famed woman in Wall Street. She is a Pierce partner. She is also a martinet. She forbids smoking anywhere in the office from 9 to 3 o'clock. She allows no employe to make personal telephone calls except when absolutely necessary, or to write personal letters on the firm's stationery. No E. A. Pierce clerk may appear before...
...Eskimo food to the music of Eskimo accordions, reclined on Eskimo brixes, called each other by Eskimo names. Chief guest, addressed as Ipatuklivak (Mightily- Bearded-God), was Greenland's most jealous Danish protector, strapping, bushy Premier Thorvald Stauning. After dinner Madam Minister Owen, called Inunguak (Dear-Little-Woman), played records which she made in Greenland last summer...
...Schdanoff; Wolfson & Sherry, producers). Fyodor Dostoievsky's solemn sermon to the effect that murder will out has been dramatized before and will doubtless be dramatized again. This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches his palms, bellows fearfully when his conscience begins...
...tragedy remain in life, even in the midst of apocalyptic happenings. As the fated people move on past the Urals, the love affair of Raoul Perez, Royalist son of the Paris banker, also moves on to a happy consummation with Leah, daughter of an orthodox rabbi. An old woman dies. Sonia, an infant violinist, insists upon her artistic kinship with Menuhin. Scientists squabble about their laboratory problems. The Passover is celebrated. Mr. Alberg, the Communist, predicts that blood will flow in the Gobi as the brotherhood of man dawns. The bankers meditate upon getting loans from London or even from...