Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Commissar for Heavy Industry Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze, a swarthy, hot-eyed Georgian who is married to an Eskimo, and plump U. S. Woman Novelist Ursula Parrott (ExWife, Strangers May Kiss) agreed last week that Russians are growing more cleanly. The Commissar was quoted in Izvestia to the effect that clean engineers keep their machines clean. Mrs. Parrott. docking in Manhattan with tales of having bribed her way around Russia with 48 pairs of silk stockings, bubbled: "There is a growing interest in cleanliness among Russians. This is shown in their [new] habit of washing before meals. Culture...
...illustrate this not unusual thesis, he sets his scene in a mythical Hyde Park, brings on Lillian Gish as The Young Whore,* her embittered mother as The Old Woman, her stepfather The Atheist, her real father The Bishop, her various lovers, pickups and The Dreamer. Each act is a season and each season has its appropriate song and dance by the folk in the park. As the seasons progress The Young Whore's lot grows sorrier. The Bishop offers her only the cold comfort of a nunnery. The Atheist is unhappily God-obsessed. The Old Woman, lamenting a lost...
...Sing them silent, dance them still and laugh them into an open shame!'' cries The Dreamer. And the Old Woman scorns the impotent Bishop's sister in words that might have come from James Joyce : "Salaam, mem pukka memsahib. en' pardon her, en' pardon me, en' pardon us all for getting in the way of thy greatness; en' grant us grace to have faith in thy dignity en' importance, per benedicte pax hugger muggery ora pro puggery rigmarolum...
...poet but a lady poet, Edna St. Vincent Millay writes not only valentines but epitaphs in lines less mighty than aristocratic. Even when she compares a woman's breasts to wild carrot and onion blossoms or describes the mating of dinosaurs, she contrives to make neither an uncouth nor an arresting gesture. At the sight of a new sonnet sequence critics may hitch up to their typewriters and look for unstruck keys, but ordinary readers will prefer Poet Millay's less pretentious quatrains...
...Orpheus' music. A very young girl in her rapture drops a flower. More mature is a girl who lifts her hands in surprise, turns her head to hear whence the music comes. A third girl turns haughtily as if to resist the spell. Most mature is the woman who was arranging her hair when Orpheus began to play. She suggests a worldly, sated figure to whom spiritual beauty has suddenly been revealed. A youth lifts his hand as if he were trying to catch the music. A man, holding a bird, motions it to be quiet while he listens...