Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Governor William Langer of North Dakota was on trial in Federal Court on a charge of forcing CWA workers to contribute to his political support, Lydia Cady Langer went out on the stump and campaigned to win her husband renomination (TIME, June 25). A frail woman with four children and little political experience, Mrs. Langer is the daughter of the late James Cleveland Cady, Manhattan architect who designed the Metropolitan Opera House. After her marriage 16 years ago in a Riverside Drive apartment, she went West with "Bill" Langer and left her New York ways and words forever behind...
...Allahabad, India, the head of the Criminal Investigation Department sent a native detective to find out where Mahatma Gandhi gets his funds. The detective spied on Gandhi, reported: "The Mahatma called to him a woman from the crowd, asked what she intended to do with such beautiful pearl earrings. While talking he gently removed them and then auctioned them off. . . . Thus does the Mahatma replenish his cash box, Sahib...
John's new love is a quiet schoolteacher, whose job depends on her respectability. Mary's lover Martin, an announcer of the British Broadcasting Corp., has also to be above suspicion. Just once, however, Martin and Mary are tempted beyond their strength. A jealous woman writes an anonymous letter to the King's Proctor. Detectives investigate and Mary's decree is rescinded. Since both have been convicted of adultery neither she nor John can ever be divorced. She would live in sin with her ex-announcer, but poor respectable John would never get his schoolteacher...
...struck up a culturally useful friendship with a fellow-boarder, a crippled youth who was no less prim of speech than she, but she guarded her virginal beauty for a vague another. More by good luck than good management she escaped the snares laid by a wily woman-hunter and the cruder advances of a loathsome dope-peddler. Fittingly established at last as private secretary to a rich lady of charitarian views, Mary (now Marilyn) met the man of her dreams, who turned out to be an inventor of genius, a gentleman born, and a landed proprietor. All the signs...
...exiled Austrian archduke and an Indian woman, Rico grew up in the jungles of a nameless Spanish-American country, turned bandit in his youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind...