Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Entered in the Women's Championship was Mrs. Lyman Whitney of Boston, only living U. S. woman who has killed a deer with bow & arrow. She and the defending champion, Madeleine Taylor of New York, were defeated by a good-looking young woman from St. Louis named Mrs. G. De Sales Mudd. Mrs. Mudd had enough points (1,771) to win before her rivals began their last round. Slim, tall, with reddish hair and a hungry-looking Nordic face, Russell Hoogerhyde has been the foremost U. S. bowman since 1930. A onetime lifeguard at Michigan beaches, he came...
...Beebe's verbal description of this monster sped up a half-mile of telephone wire into the ears of a pretty, yellow-haired young woman named Gloria Hollister, who recorded the Beebe babblings in her fleet shorthand. Equipped with the conventional headphones and mouthpiece of a switchboard girl but dressed like a champion tennist, Miss Hollister resembled a cinemactress playing a part more than the earnest young scientist...
...will, contributed to the rehabilitation of Chautauqua the Institution did not reveal. Biggest single gift in the campaign was an anonymous one of $5,000. Chautauqua trustees contributed $20,000. The Bird & Tree Club, of which Mrs. Edison is president, chipped in with $3,358 while the Woman's Club gave $2,507. By far the greatest bloc of contributions toward lifting Chautauqua out of its gentle dumps came from those who have grown old with it, residents of the county who gave $26,652, and cottage-owners at Chautauqua itself who mustered a thumping good...
...several years, Miss Fanny Holtzmann has been known vaguely in Manhattan theatrical circles as "the highest paid woman lawyer in the world." Since most women attorneys receive trifling fees, this distinction was negligible, although Lawyer Holtzmann's clients included Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard. She began her legal career as a schoolgirl, doing chores about the office of her older brother, Lawyer Jacob L. Holtzmann, studied law at Fordham, opened an office of her own half an hour after being admitted to the bar in 1922. She has been ready for the plaintiff ever since...
This spring there was a novelty to be seen at a north London amusement park. It was no great success, but cockneys with a sixpenny bit could get into a tent and gawp at a gaunt, hollow-eyed woman with stringy dark hair sitting in a barrel. She was billed as "The Fasting Woman." Last week the bony body of the Fasting Woman lay behind a screen in the charity ward of a London hospital. A card was clipped over her bed: "NORINE LATTIMORE. . . . Born: Doughty St., London 1894. . . . Cause of death: cancer. . . ." Thus ended the career of Dolores...