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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...That a woman from the U. S. A. is one thing and a woman from the U. S. S. R. quite another was evident in Copenhagen last week when His Majesty Christian X, tallest of Scandinavia's three tall kings, received the corps diplomatique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Triumph | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...back until diplomats who have been longer at Stockholm than she bow before Sweden's Gustaf. Not only has Comrade Kollantay never claimed the right of "ladies first," but like other Old Bolsheviks she considers ''lady" a repulsive epithet. Very much a lady is the first woman ever appointed a U. S. Minister. Last week in Copenhagen the rule that senior diplomats always take precedence was waived in her favor by the gallants of the corps. Leading them all in a gown and hat of silver-embroidered black velvet the U. S. Minister swept up to King...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DENMARK: Triumph | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...diamond necklace, a glittering plastron of 1,801 stones, 40 inches long ending in a sort of jointed breastplate of diamonds. Dealers, many of whom were unable to get in the room, shouted bids through the door, raising the price $250 at a time. A quiet, unassuming woman in galoshes who sat with her husband on a bench against the wall finally bid it in for $15,000. Said she: "It's beautiful. It all comes apart, you know, and makes lots of bracelets and brooches and things." Known to every Chicago gossip columnist was the historic Bonaparte-McCormick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: First & Last | 1/15/1934 | See Source »

...where Samuel Seabury plotted Tammany's destruction some three years ago, last week swart little Fiorello Enrico LaGuardia faced a New York Supreme Court Justice reading him an oath of office. "I do so solemnly swear,'' snapped Mr. LaGuardia, thereupon turning and kissing the plain earnest woman who was once his secretary, is now his wife. "Now we have a Mayor of New York!" exclaimed delighted Inquisitor Seabury, who had whipped together the Fusion Party which turned bumbling Mayor John Patrick O'Brien out of office, turned Tammany upside down. To celebrate this deed, the Evening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Fusion Oath | 1/8/1934 | See Source »

...refused to testify against her in court and the judge gave her a suspended sentence ; Uncle, oldest plantation inhabitant, who believed he had a right to three men's ra tions because he had lived as long and worked as hard as any three men; the deaf woman who killed her baby because her man would not acknowledge her. Expert reporter of Negro dialect, Au thoress Peterkin can get the authentic ef fect even in an indirect transcription : "After his lawfully lady left him, he looked so down in the heart, she offered to do his washing and cooking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: King Christina | 1/1/1934 | See Source »

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