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Word: womanizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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While homage was thick in London, Paris burbled over Picasso's latest joke. Sitting as usual in the evening at the Café de Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: London Greys | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Other publishers did not follow suit. Said David Smart of Esquire, Ken and Coronet: "We're cooperating 100%." Similar reassurance came from the Crowell group (Collier's, American Magazine, Woman's Home Companion, Country Home), TIME Inc., Forum and Scribner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Indigestion | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Early in the century Dr. Kelly was impressed by the Curies' radium discoveries, and in 1904 he bought a supply of radium, cured a woman of cancer. Eager to develop domestic sources of radium, he studied mining, learned that radium could be obtained from carnotite, developed a reduction plant at Denver to make domestic radium available. Dr. Kelly's interest in domestic radium, says Dr. Cullen jokingly, began when he lost $80,000 in a Mexican silver mine. At present he is estimated to have the largest private radium supply in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Fathers & Sons | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...tuberculous, 30-year-old nurse named Margaret Sanger began publishing singlehanded a feminist paper called the Woman Rebel. Six months later she began raising money for a pamphlet called Family Limitation, the opening gun in her campaign to spread the gospel of Birth Control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sanger Saga | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Onetime ad writer for a mustard concern and sober-living father of three, Author Hutchinson* wrote The Answering Glory, an intense story of a woman missionary in Africa, from the snug purview of his London suburb. Although he was only eleven when the Armistice was signed, The Unforgotten Prisoner was an apparently first-hand account of English and German War victims. And he wrote Shining Scabbard, a grim novel of French family life, with no closer acquaintance with France than French literature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tour de Force | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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