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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criminal lunatics sitting around a big table." For although Basil Rathbone does a good job as the villain, Mars is the real villain. The "poor man's war" angle is unconvincingly put forward, but the flying sequences are good. The picture is sans love interest, with nary a woman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

Meanwhile a crowd was gathering to watch the spectacle, which was enhanced by the addition of an anonymous woman who seemed to be even better trained than the dog. Assuming a stand with her hands on her hips she equally matched the pointer immobility. The tension became intense as the two vied for honors to determine who could last the longest. Finally a humane student, probably a Student Union member, fearing both would drop from exhaustion, let out a high pitched shriek which called the squirrel's attention to the matter. The rodent scampered up the nearest tree, the hypnotic...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WOMAN vs. DOG IN STATIONARY SQUIRREL HUNT BY WIDENER | 1/20/1939 | See Source »

Though no acknowledgment of source is made, The Primrose Path strikes many a playgoer as a dramatization of Victoria Lincoln's popular novel, February Hill (1934). First mentioned for production by Sam H. Harris in 1935, the play went unproduced for three years, after a Fall River, Mass, woman, charging that February Hill maligned members of her family, sued Author Lincoln for $100,000. So far the case has not come to trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 16, 1939 | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

Enough to alarm the woman-wary is the contemporary trend to novels and memoirs by writers' wives and mistresses. Few years ago Arnold Bennett's mistress, Dorothy Cheston-Bennett, and his wife, Marguerite, published their intimate memoirs. About the same time appeared the memoirs of D. H. Lawrence's wife, Frieda. While these memoirs spilled plenty of beans, at least they were withheld until their subjects were dead. Not so Half A Loaf, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel by Sinclair Lewis' exwife, Grace Hegger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Resistant Wife | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

...Heart of the North" merely proves once again-clop-clop, clop-clop--that the Mounties always get what they start after, whether it's an outlaw, a woman, or even a promotion, Miss Chapman pipes her lines like Little Eva. Technicolor proves that Dick Foran is red-headed and at times red-blooded, See it run. Real...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 1/16/1939 | See Source »

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