Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John Dillinger of the newspictures. His sandy hair had been dyed black. He had grown a mustache. His eyebrows were plucked, his pug nose straightened, his face "lifted." But these disguises did not fool Investigator Purvis. Thanks to a woman's tip, Investigator Purvis and 15 Federal agents were ready for Desperado Dillinger when he strode jauntily out of the Biograph Theatre two hours later. At the sight of men closing in on him from nowhere Dillinger whirled, reached for his gun, darted for an alley. A volley of lead cut him down in his tracks, one bullet through...
...Swedish sports journal Idrottsbladet, taking down his words. What the reporter thought he heard the Minister say made headlines next day in Idrottsbladet. It was: "Be on your watch. The Swedes are a jealous nation and do not like to see foreign sportsmen triumph. Maribel Vinson [champion U. S. woman figure-skater from 1928 to 1934] was unfairly marked down by the judges, for a Swedish competitor to get a better placing." Actually, as Idrottsbladet scathingly pointed out, international judges rated sleek-legged Miss Vinson fifth for the world championship largely because she skidded and fell. They gave fourth place...
...young woman of Linfield College (McMinnville, Ore.) glanced bleakly at "Kisses": The first kiss that heated up my mouth to love Entrenched itself upon me with a long storm blast. But the last sophisticated taste of man's desire upon my lips Trembled only while I idly watched a butterfly that passed...
...like to talk to Mr. Ramsay Mac-Donald," gasped a nervous Nova Scotia newspaper woman. "Mr. MacDonald is rather busy and tired," was the reply in a frosty, secretarial voice from the cottage. "Well, I don't mind confessing I'd be scared to death to talk to him anyway," gushed the newspaper woman. She heard a deep, Scottish chuckle and the voice again, no longer glacial: "Well, you needn't be scared! You've been talking to him for the last two minutes...
...WOMAN AND THE SEA?Concha Espina?Rae D. Henkle ($2.50). Old-fashioned psychological melodrama by a Spanish woman novelist well thought of in her native country...