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...intend to stand at the Subway kiosk and repeat the following: "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? That was no lady, that was my wife." This should tie up traffic as far as Watertown. And, as it is a slur not only on Womankind, but, by extension, on Motherhood as well, I expect arrest. Constant Reader

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Mail | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EIRE: The Phoenix | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...wears beautiful turn-of-the-century dresses designed by her former husband, Oleg Cassini; her acting is neither better nor worse than usual. Edna Best is skilled and sweet as her maid, and George Sanders obviously enjoys playing a ninny, for a change, instead of the velvet scourge of womankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 23, 1947 | 6/23/1947 | See Source »

...something very far from stock in Howard da Silva's fine, complex, pent-up performance. William Bendix is real and frightening as his brutal and devoted first mate, and Brian Donlevy is resolute and sympathetic whenever he has a chance. Alan Ladd suffers, fights and makes up to womankind with his usual chilly proficiency and Barry Fitzgerald scuttles obscurely around in the galley, making all he can of his few lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 2, 1946 | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...heretical" theory of childbirth has been preached for years by a London obstetrician: that childbirth is not naturally painful, that rather it should be an occasion of "exaltation and incomparable happiness." The cause of women's agony, insists Dr. Grantly Dick Read, is fear-a traditional anxiety with womankind ever since the Lord God warned Eve: "In pain thou shalt bring forth children" (Genesis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Should It Hurt? | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

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