Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old Mrs. Trow on Election Day, were refused. When they returned with policemen and broke into the house, they found Mrs. Knox ill in bed, no trace of her mother. Mrs. Knox told the sheriff that her mother was on a trip, that she had hired a woman to impersonate her. She had been collecting her mother's $40 monthly Civil War pension. Pressed, Mrs. Knox said Mrs. Trow had gone to Nebraska with a friend named Ed Roach...
...eleven were killed last week in the scramble of 300,000 of Istanbul's inhabitants to get a look into the open coffin of the late President Kamal Atatürk. Vowing to follow her foster father to the grave, Flight Lieutenant Sahiba Gokçen, Turkish woman army flier, fasted in Istanbul's Dolmabaghche Palace, was later persuaded by physicians to pull herself together and leave for Ankara, the capital...
...weeks he cuts a section of tendon from a toe or wrist, transplants one end inside the fingertip, ties the other to a notch in the steel rod, gradually withdraws the rod through the finger, pulling the new tendon into the sheath-a process like that used by any woman in pulling an elastic through a hem. Finally...
Powder River rises in central Wyoming, fed by the snows of the Big Horn Mountains. North it flows, joined by Salt Creek, Dugout Creek, Pumpkin Creek, Wild Horse Creek and Crazy Woman Creek. Bitterly alkaline, mushy with quicksand, flanked for 100 miles by badlands, Powder River is nothing compared with such rushing beauties as the Feather, the Snake, the Salmon...
...scholarly potboiler. Called /, Claudius and giving a sympathetic account of the emperor whom Gibbon considered only a shade better than Nero, it became a bestseller. In Claudius the God, which followed, Graves pictured Claudius as the one Roman who believed that his wife, Messalina, was an honest woman, preserved the flavor of an old chronicle in a lively, modern story...