Word: womanizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Once there was a woman that had done a big washing and hung it on the line. The line broke and let it fall down in the mud, but she didn't say a word: only did it all over again, and this time spread it on the grass, where it couldn't fall...
This model young woman, Jane Dahlman (Smith College '35, cum laude), is the daughter of Lawyer Louis A. Dahlman of Milwaukee. Her mother was a Chicago Cudahy, daughter of Patrick, of the packing family, sister of John, who now functions as U. S. Minister to the family's native Ireland. When Miss Dahlman left two months ago to visit Uncle John in Dublin, no one suspected that "Honest Harold" Ickes would slip away to marry her. But slip he did and very proud he was, too, of the slick...
...dank, one-room Chicago tenement, agents of the board of health last fortnight discovered a pair of starving, premature twins, a boy and a girl who did not look alike. While hospital nurses washed and fed them, health officers last week tried to get their mother, a woman of 36, two years a widow, to clarify a complex situation. She had already had twelve children. Eight of those, ranging from 18 to two years of age, were living. She could not tell whether the father of her latest pair was one Luis Ersing, 24. or one Lanzarin Timoteo, 26, both...
...airplane. He hopped out, spun the propeller. As the motor caught and the plane began to move, Aviator D'Annunzio ducked the wing., missed the cabin, was knocked flat by the tail. The pilotless plane wheeled dizzily round the field, crashed through a fence, pinned a woman bystander against her automobile. The woman was hospitalized. Charged with third-degree assault, Flyer D'Annunzio was arrested, held in $500 bail...
Grischa was eventually shot, in one of the most powerful scenes in War fiction. In his next two novels Zweig turned back to trace the earlier careers of some of the people who had defended Grischa. Young Woman of 1914 told of the marriage of Werner Bertin, who had been one of Grischa's first defenders. Education Before Verdun told how Bertin had learned the facts of war life, and the savagery of conflicts between officers. Now, in The Crowning of a King, the consequences of their stand in the Grischa case are traced in the subsequent careers...