Word: womankind
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...Ileana," said Her Majesty crisply, "will probably not marry for a year at least, nor will her brother Nicholas. . . . Ileana liked the way American boys danced and conducted themselves. She liked their great deference and reverence toward womankind, too. I would have no objection to her marrying a nice young American, if she really loved him and I thought they would get along well together...
...Senor Miguel Cinchaga Tocornal stomach. Where is romance, where color? Does all womankind wear "Bar is creations" and display its ears? Is all mankind standardized into that deaf torture, the dinner jacket? Where will this end? Soon we may hear that Germans do not drink beer that Frenchmen do not tempt innocent American chorus-girl-hood, that manicuring is a profitable Chinese industry. Nothing is more shameful than to destroy the faith of the great American peepul in foreign nature...
...where delivered, or by whom. This time the deliverer was Governess Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming. The occasion was the opening of a new Gimbel Brothers department store, in Philadelphia. Three generations of the Messrs. Gimbel and their wives applauded. "The store," Governess Ross said, "is a tribute to womankind." It is also, of course, a place for a woman's money...
...them lay on beds, gazing at you pensively. Some sat up, turned this way or that from the hips to exhibit their soft back curves, while others faced their beholders squarely erect, with something like defiance in their eyes and a metallic quality about their bold fronts expressive of womankind's underrated hardihood...
While political amateurs bore the world with analyses of Rivera, Mussolini and Pangalos, Mustapha Komal Pasha, magic enchanter who affixed the brim to the fez and drew the vell from the fact of Turkish womankind, goes unheralded and unsung, as if social traditions were not a thousand times more difficult to upset than political dicta...