Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kemp, fiftyish, mother of two children, herself daughter of one of the first families of Tangipahoa Parish, a woman who had never put her hand into political mud, looked on with dismay at the whole scandalous proceeding. Then she took a hand herself, offered to resign as Congresswoman to stand for nomination in regular primaries if her opponents would abandon their plan to hold a "citizens' election." To the Kingfish, sitting in his New Orleans hotel room surrounded by bodyguards, the news of her offer was a severe jolt...
...state. Mothers are encouraged to have their children nurtured and trained by the state. Working women, and 70% of Soviet women between the ages of 18 and 45 do work, place their children in day nurseries. Among the Soviets these institutions serve as quotidian orphan asylums. When a woman brings her child to a nursery for keeping while she works, the child is given a physical examination, a bath and a clean uniform. If ill in any way, the child is segregated. All the children have individual towels, drinking cups, tooth brushes. All are taught young how to care...
...woman need have no more than one child unless she wants to. Except for her first pregnancy, she may have an abortion performed at any time during the first two and a half months of term. Curetting without anesthesia is preferred to drugs. The doctor "is recommended to discourage a woman from abortion if there are no social, economic or medical reasons for it, and particularly if she has fewer than three children, or has adequate means for supporting another child." Usually there is no charge for the abortion, or at the most 40 rubles ($20). The operation occupies three...
...when his mistress turned on him and became the chief witness for the prosecution. Poor Mr. Brown's cup is filled to overflowing. As his lawyer so feelingly put it to the jury, "Subconsciously, somewhere in his mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married. He and his wife have adopted a baby. But he is frank about it. He is sincere in his love. He is infatuated. He is mad. But he is not a crook. Poor, deluded Brown--he fell for that...
...seeing nothing); but it is none the less grotesque and even somewhat amusing. The producers of "The Invisible Man" have not taken their creation too seriously, and so they have him do a jig down a country road with nothing but his trousers and an hysterically fugitive old woman to indicate his presence...