Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigator of U. S. Indian music is a spry, 71-year-old, grey-haired woman, Frances Densmore. For the past 45 years, methodical Spinster Densmore has periodically left her old family home in Red Wing, Minn, to traipse over North America salvaging Indian war whoops and love songs, which she stuffed away in her oldfashioned, wax-cylinder recording machine...
...Pittsburgh woman snatched up a bottle of poison, screamed "I'd rather die this way than like that." Her husband stopped her. A man telephoned the New York Times from Dayton, Ohio to find out exactly when the world was coming to an end. The Associated Press got out a reassuring bulletin...
City College's student publications thereupon published belated reviews of this book. Chapter titles: "A Platonic Kiss," "A Siren's Boudoir," "A Mistress Dissatisfied." Its big scene: a nude woman, lying on a couch of black velvet, seducing the hero: " 'You hold yourself in control like a bloodhound in leash,' she said with a provocative movement of her lips. . . . Flushed, panting, in a frenzy of passion, she clung to him, kissing him with avid lips, aroused to wild lubricity. 'Beat me if you like,' she cried, 'strike me, crush me. I crave violence...
This happened not long ago in the chemical engineering laboratories of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Associate Professor Ernst Alfred Hauser and a blonde, slim young woman chemist who was his co-worker were investigating the properties and behavior of bentonite. Mined in Canada and the western U. S., bentonite is a kind of clay which has the property of swelling when it is wetted, absorbing up to ten times its own volume of water. It is used for foundry molding, in tooth pastes, face powder and facial mud packs...
Steffens slurred over in his autobiography his lifelong fears that he was drying up as a writer, that his talents were failing just when he had most to say. He also left out the biggest emotional complication of his life: his love affair with a married woman (called G. in his letters), who could not divorce her invalid husband...