Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter of fact, doctors, experts and specialists have seized upon this situation with all the impersonal, detached enthusiasm characteristic of the scientific mind, congregating in St. Louis as to a great field laboratory. When a Post-Dispatch reporter asked a woman from the East, distinguished in research, her aim in coming to the city, she replied: "To improve my mind." Meanwhile. Mrs. Smith of Oregon or New Mexico or Virginia, reads of all these famous people from New York, the Federal agencies, Rochester, Minn., etc., etc., and it seems to her like the gathering of shock troops to combat...
...year-old Ghazi I to see whether he had the will and the talent for juggling. He had been raised by a British governess, had worn Eton suits in Bagdad, played tennis. Mistrustful Arabs hawked wild rumors last month through Irak that he planned to marry a British woman. Last week King Ghazi ended that by stepping into his Throne Room before the members of his family and his Cabinet and betrothing himself to Adviser Ali's second daughter, his own first cousin, Princess Alija. Since she had lived all her life behind a veil, all Ghazi knew...
...thin-lipped, perspiring New Englander, who had spent a third of his life abroad"; James Monroe "The raw-boned, six-foot President . . . a shy man, an able lieutenant, though a mediocre chief." There is young "Capt. Fort, speaking freely and a trifle importantly"; and plump little Rachel, "a frontier woman, clinging to the fragile images of a bygone day that had witnessed her last touch with happiness." Mr. James sketches these and a hundred more with sure, positive strokes. When Andrew Jackson speaks on these pages, he is talking to real people whom the reader knows, he confronts problems which...
...seizing and kissing a young woman in a railway compartment when the train went through a tunnel. Sir Leo George Chiozza Money, 63, famed economist, editor, originator of Allied shipping strategy against German submarines in the War, was fined ?2 10s ($11.25) in Epsom, England...
...readers and enthusiasts over Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass, Edward Fitz-Gerald's translation of the Rubaiyat. They started an interior decorating company, "destined to banish Plush and Fuss from the Victorian drawing-room. . . ." But their most enthusiastically-pursued activity was the cult of Pre-Raphaelite woman. First came Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, called "Lizzie" for short, a long-necked, beauteous but goitrous milliner's assistant. For a while their common model, she became by tacit consent the property of Rossetti. He often said he would marry her but put it off so long that when...