Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robert Switz's thumbprints, and two blonde hairs that under a microscope matched hair from, the head of. Marjorie Switz. In Manhattan Mrs. Switz's mother, Mrs. Bertha Tilley, was greatly upset. ''I gave my daughter a Vassar College education, I baked pies for the Woman's Exchange for 16 years to do it," said she. "I am sure she cannot be a spy, Marjorie was so carefully raised. She was never allowed to play on the city streets." ¶In peace or in war all nations employ spies-more often to discover prosaic matters...
...from head to toe. When they buy the indigo cottonades for their robes, they wet their thumbs and rub them over the cloth to make sure the dye is not fast. In the wet coastal heat they sweat the dye from the cloth to their skins. No true Blue Woman would look at a man who was not also a good deep blue. The Blue Men's rebellion flickers 200 mi. south of the main Berber rebellion around Marrakesh. Their chief capitals, fortified oases, are Tiiznit, Smara and Kerdous. Their last few Sultans have been notably stupid...
...once a mysterious woman began telephoning the London office...
...bringing big city airs and manners for all the rest to ape. Young men who can afford it dress like customers' men and young women look fresh from Michigan Boulevard. Dancing and "dates" are far & away their favorite pastimes, followed by swimming, fencing, hockey. A Yaleman or Wellesley woman would feel strange in Urbana-Champaign for a while, but a student from Ann Arbor, Madison or Berkeley would be at home almost at once. Each would need to learn only a few names. Illinois' favorite soft-lighted booths for pairing off between classes, are at Hanley...
...could not get refrigerated space on ships from South America, they bought their own vessels, founded their own Blue Star Line, Ltd. Famed is Lady Vestey, born Evelyn Brodstone of Superior, Neb. Farm-bred, she became stenographer to Baron Vestey, later a $250,000-a-year executive ("highest-salaried woman in the world"), and in 1924 the second Lady Vestey...