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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...piped Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker, octogenarian club woman: "We are here, Mrs. Roosevelt, a thousand strong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Off the Record | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

...They hired another fine little woman in my county, the wife of a professional man who needed not the position, and paid her $127.50 per month to teach the good old country housewives out in the hills how to make soap-and God knows she had never seen an ash hopper in her life! In two other counties in my district the New Dealers have employed three men, Government agents at good salaries, to roam over the hills in Wright and Howell Counties hunting for Indian mounds. After several weeks' search I asked if any mounds had been found...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Rickety Roller | 2/4/1935 | See Source »

Jennie Lee, the Scotch lassie who was a member of Parliament at the age of 24, and the first woman socialist to bed admitted to the English bar, will speak in the New Lecture Hall at eight o'clock on Tuesday under the auspices of the Liberal Club of the Radcliffe International Club and of Phillips Brooks House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JENNIE LEE TO SPEAK IN NEW LECTURE HALL | 2/1/1935 | See Source »

Author-Actress. Mrs. Norris says of her life, "It's just neutral." Yet she certainly fits no stereotyped category as a producer of literary lumber. A charming, friendly, incredibly busy woman, she is a concocter of treacly yarns, a romantic who laps up travel literature (Arctic exploration, mountain climbing), a sophisticated and often rampageous wit and practical joker, an amateur actress of talent, a deadly croquet player, a dynamo of energy that can leap from typewriter to cooking pot to evening dress and back again, a wife, a mother, a chatelaine, all in one highly individual bundle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Honeymoon | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

...endless conversationalist, at her best when she takes off in a nonsensical plane of pretense. Her favorite jape is to pose as an abandoned woman who is living in sin with her author-husband, Charles G. ("Ceegee") Norris (Bread, Brass, Salt). This tomfoolery runs on & on, like a Chinese play, with "Kay" Norris ringing all the changes on her alleged state of total depravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Golden Honeymoon | 1/28/1935 | See Source »

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