Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When fiscal 1934 ends this week, final figures will show that the Federal Government has collected about $3,100,000,000 in income, excise, customs and other taxes-about $25 for every man, woman and child in the U. S. Last week Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins was asked by newshawks whether he thought the huge relief expenditures in prospect would ever be paid for out of taxes. "Certainly!" he retorted, "I do not think taxes in this country are stiff. Perhaps real estate taxes are stiff, but certainly income taxes are light comparatively. This country does not know what real...
...week over Brighton. The feminine mayor of this most respectable resort on the whole so-called "British Riviera" was almost frantic when embarrassed policemen broke the news to her. In the parcel room of balmy, blissful Brighton's sprawling railway station the headless, armless, legless torso of a woman had been found in a small trunk. Shrilled Mayor Margaret Hardy: "This case belongs to London! Nothing like this has ever happened before in Brighton...
...listen to the program, afterwards telephoned the broadcasting studio and pretended to be the advertising manager of Cascarets offering a contract (TIME, May 29, 1933). "Home on the Range" has worked hard for radio since then. Kay Francis kept singing it to Edward G. Robinson in I Loved a Woman. Baritone John Charles Thomas was one of several to put it on a phonograph record which lately reached a Mr. and Mrs. William Goodwin in Manhattan Beach, Calif. William Goodwin, a onetime cowboy who now runs a hay, grain & feed business in Tempe, Ariz., claimed that he and his wife...
Cinemactress Mae West: "I am really a rather narrow-minded woman. When my brother was running around with a woman who drank I was worried to death and got him interested in a gymnasium and other things. I do not drink or smoke. I do not go to Hollywood parties. . . . Sometimes I work so hard that I fall asleep at dinner...
...adopts the teachings of a woman leader of a cult who is now dead and in her grave. She was no Messiah and no God, just a woman of bones, flesh and blood, and yet this plaintiff, who will die as you and I, with hundreds of thousands of others, has seen fit to put aside real science ... to adopt the belief that pain and illness are things of the imagination and not of reality...