Word: womankind
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...soldiers' greatest problem was the stubborn womankind of Iceland. About the only word of Icelandic they learned was the word for girl, stulka. They would lounge in the streets, calling "Hi, stulka" to every blonde. But they got no response...
Once a week, as a respite from soap operas, NBC offers U. S. womankind a program known as Luncheon at the Waldorf. Broadcast from the Empire Room of Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, the show is aimed at matrons with better-than-average bankrolls, is as sedulously shallow as a column by Lucius Beebe. Clearly responsible for the tenor of the Luncheon is Actress Ilka Chase, who not only serves as aerial hostess but writes the scripts as well. Last week before a free-feeding audience of 50, Luncheon at the Waldorf was fluttering smartly through its third 13-week...
...have found out through my numerous years of experience never to call a girl a girl; it doesn't pay. A member of the petticoats--my term for womankind as a class--cannot be just a girl...
...called an oviduct, through which in the ordinary course of nature she would expel her own eggs. As soon as one pregnancy test is over, the bitterling may be returned to an aquarium of fresh water where she quickly recovers her form and is again ready to serve curious womankind...
...Burt-White. Cried Mrs. Pottesman, whom he had cured of a rare disease: "All those who have signed have been brought through dangerous illnesses by Dr. Burt-White. There are hundreds of women whom he alone could cure. It is our business to see that his services to womankind are not lost...