Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hospital, every morgue and every administrative office in the two boroughs. Whenever and wherever news breaks City Newsmen are usually the first to spot it. They tell their office and their office tells the newspapers in some 75,000 words a day. Thus, when the Times reports that a woman's body was fished out of the East River, or that an out-of-town buyer was killed in a taxi smash, or that three subway beggars got 30 days, it means in most cases that City News supplied the facts to the Times...
...Hofnagel is a well-to-do farmer of the Pennsylvania Dutch country, known and respected from Allentown to Lancaster as a potent "hex-doctor." A seventh son, he believes implicitly in his own powers. He informs a village woman that if she would know which of several suitors to accept, she should put initialed onions beneath her pillow, be guided by the onion that sprouts first. For a lovecharm he prescribes a drop of blood in a glass of water. To keep witches out of a churn he recommends a hot flatiron. Benign, fond of his family, Father Hofnagel spits...
Before long Saint Therese is identified as an aggressive, energetic woman, more like an American than like a cloistered Spanish lady. The saintly chorus, dressed in pale blue and wearing silver gloves and bits of halos, furnish the description by singing "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and following it directly with "Saint Therese Something Like That." Whereupon the end men call out "Enter Saint Therese...
Awarded. To Lucy Langdon Williams Wilson, 69, progressive educator, principal of Philadelphia's Southern High School for girls: the Philadelphia award for conspicuous civil service (scroll, medal, $10,000). She is the first woman recipient since the award was founded in 1921 by the late Edward...
...Sonja Henie, of Norway, world's champion woman figure skater: a title contest before the Norwegian royal family in which the U. S. champion, graceful Maribel Vinson of Boston, fell during a spin, landed in fifth place; at Oslo...