Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other man (or woman) stands out sufficiently in the year 1938 to be honored with TIME'S selection, leave the front cover blank but don't use Hitler...
...Marotta hotly defended herself. Everyone knew she was a good woman, she said. Everyone knew she had been acquitted of manslaughter after shooting her lover, Louis Gumas, six years ago. She had never made the cornuto sign behind her husband's back. She had not made love behind his back with her divorced husband Thomas Catanzaro; nor with Dr. Charles Stoerzer, sometime house physician of the Raymond Street Jail (her sometime residence); nor with "a tall, thin...
...week the ghazi's last testament, written in his own hand in September, turned over remaining $3,750,000 worth of property to the management of the Republican People's Party, sole official political organization of the country. Under the Moslem inheritance laws of the sultans, no woman shared in a man's estate. Under the will of Atatürk, stanch advocate of woman's equal rights, women were almost the sole beneficiaries. To the party the ghazi gave these directions: pay his surviving sister $10,000 yearly; provide varying fixed incomes for his five...
Influenced by Henry James, Miss Richardson set out to write the first realistic novel probing the subconscious thoughts of a woman, a bold, original work that should be the feminine counterpart of Joyce's Ulysses and Proust's Remembrance of Things Past. Its fatal flaw showed from the start: a reticence as amazing as Proust's and Joyce's candor. Her heroine, Miriam Henderson, is the daughter of a bankrupt upper middle-class family, restless, chauvinistic, anti-American, who leaves home when she is 17, teaches in girls' schools in Germany and London...
...John Walter Caughey (University of Oklahoma Press, $3), tells of a Creek Indian chief of the post-Revolutionary War period who was known as the Talleyrand of Alabama for his skill in playing off Spanish-American antagonisms for Creek benefit. Son of a Scottish trader and a French-Indian woman, McGillivray owned slaves, suffered from venereal disease, died in his 303, preserved the Creek nation a full generation...