Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Back in the '70s my mother was going through Missouri when the train stopped at a little town. A small, countrified looking woman got on and took the seat in front of her. The conductor, taking tickets, stopped at her seat but she looked straight ahead. "Your ticket, madam," he said. She replied, "I have no ticket." He asked, "Your pass, then?" She looked him in the eyes as she held up the stump of an arm and answered, "This is my pass." The conductor took another look and kept on going. It was Jesse James's mother...
...good lecturer, an amiable and energetic man. Last week the "fission" of the uranium atom definitely looked like a find of Nobel Prize calibre. But present German law forbids Germans to accept Nobel Prizes. Meanwhile, physicists have unofficially distributed some of the credit to Liese Meitner in Stockholm (a woman physicist) and R. Frisch of Copenhagen, who presented a fine interpretation of what happened when the uranium atom cracked. Some credit also went to Nobel Laureate Irene Curie-Joliot (daughter of Marie Curie) and P. Savitch of Paris, who had done work which helped Hahn identify the all-important barium...
...into Czechoslovakia. Pumped for their reason, 16-year-old Otto said: "I'll now quote Herr Abraham Lincoln: 'You can fool all the people some of the time,' " etc. Later that day Otto smashed the teeth of another Hitler Youth he caught baiting an old Jewish woman, got a warm handshake from the Nazi cop who rushed him to a quiet side street, told him to scram...
Running seventh out of nine candidates of whom three were elected, Kerins received 2189 (incomplete returns) as compared with 6491 votes garnered by the leading candidate, Brooks Morrison, and 6435 votes polled by his woman competitor, Mrs. Edith Baker...
...Indianapolis, a young woman who had been vaccinated for smallpox rubbed the small pink spot on her arm with her finger, with the same finger vigorously scratched her nose. Few days later, her doctor found that, while the vaccination had not taken on her arm, it certainly had on her nose...