Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convicted of assisting bootleggers. His wife had twice been prevented from giving evidence in his behalf. In an opinion reversing the lower court's decision, Associate Justice George Sutherland, considered one of the Supreme Court's conservatives, smashed an ancient precedent in common law by recognizing a woman's eligibility to testify in a criminal case concerning her husband...
...ununiformed Deputy was Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen, a Papal Chamberlain and Nazi-dom's valued link with Rome. His immaculate cutaway made a black plum in the brown Nazi pudding. For the first time since the War no Deputy was a Jew, a Communist, a Socialist, a woman...
Stingier than Scotsmen, Swiss taxpayers make it their business to enforce respect for the property of Swiss Federal Railways which they acutely feel to be their own. Last week one Christine Maple, a pretty Los Angeles young woman on her way from St. Moritz to Paris, stanchly resisted the efforts of Swiss passengers to make her take her feet off the opposite seat. When the train pulled into Zurich the enraged Swiss handed her to a Swiss gendarme who handed her to a Swiss judge who fined her 50 Swiss francs...
Lady Eleanor Smith, a woman not yet twenty-five years of age, is the daughter of the late Earl of Birkenhead. She is a woman of great beauty and is popular in English society. Her world is not limited to the narrow circles of sedate Mayfair. She has extensive knowledge of the circus, the theater, the world of sport, and of the great middle classes of England. She is quite capable of entering into sympathetic regard for the particular individuals she portrays, and she has an excellent knowledge of the milieus within which these individuals act. Her book...
This neglect of the homemaking angle of womanhood seems almost unprecedented in view of the fact that the author stresses an particularly in her introduction the fact that woman is "primordial force..continuer, protector, preserver of life, instinctive, active, thoughtful, ever bringing thought back from sterile spectulation to the center of life and work". Does it not seem true that woman as a homemaker, not as a political leader, is carrying out the idea of primordial force? Woman's place in the past was always in the home and it was there that she exerted her influence. Now it seems...