Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most newspapers did not print a story that Mrs. Roosevelt told in Washington one night last week. Addressing a banquet of Community Chest leaders at the Mayflower Hotel she declared: "I thought of a woman I had seen just after her child died. The child had died because it slept in a cold, wet bed. It had had to sleep in that bed because the family had been evicted from its home. The mother told the sheriff that her child was sick. He said to her: "I'm not here to nurse your god-damned kids.' " That morning...
Lady for a Day (Columbia) is a Broadway sob story, highly effective because in it sentiment is used mainly as a springboard for comedy. Its heroine is a quaintly incredible old woman who sells apples on a Manhattan corner, guzzles too much gin, and corresponds with her daughter, whom she is sending to a Spanish convent, on the stationery of an expensive hotel. Apple Annie (May Robson) finds herself in a dilemma when her daughter (Jean Parker) writes to say that she has become engaged to a young Spanish grandee and that she is bringing him and his father, Count...
...White-crowned Dr. Peter Ainslie of Baltimore's Christian Temple "would have made a famous cardinal." A stout-hearted warrior for Peace and Church Unity, Virginia-born, he once made a Virginia audience squirm by telling them how, in a Jim Crow car, he asked a Negro woman to sit by him and cried down the other passengers when they sought to have her ousted. ¶ Author Jones asked two Methodists who is their ablest preacher. Both named Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle of Evanston, Ill., who last spring was hounded as a Communist by a group calling themselves "Paul...
...with Margot. a girl at the coast who was no stranger to men. When he brought her defiantly home the family was troubled out made the best of things. Soon they were all sorry for Margot, for Lias's passion turned to hate; he beat her, fathered another woman's child, finally left for California. When nothing was heard of him for years he was declared legally dead, and Brother Jasper married Margot. Lonzo chopped his foot nearly off one day and died of blood-poisoning. Cean mourned him well and truly, later married a preacher. A letter...
...Woman. If posterity understands present-day art. it is likely that the future will have a pretty good idea what Gertrude Stein looked like. Picasso has painted her, Picabia has drawn her. Jo Davidson has done a joss-like statue of her. Never a beauty, she is now massive, middleaged, 59, would strongly resemble a fat Jewish hausfrau were it not for her close-cropped head. (When her old friend Mme de Clermont-Tonnerre had her hair bobbed, Gertrude Stein decided to cut her hair short too. Alice Toklas did it for her.) Very democratic, proud of being a plain...