Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...woman with an instinct for privacy, Mrs. Roosevelt reportedly never let her picture appear in a newspaper until her husband was elected Vice President (although he had previously been New York City Police Commissioner and Governor of New York). In the White House, she managed her family and her husband with serene competence and quiet humor. She improved the White House gardens and its housekeeping. Visitors caught glimpses of her reading to her children, or sewing at an upstairs window. She kept a watchful eye on Teddy, often interceded at state functions with a quiet "Theodore! Theodore!" (The President always...
Professor Helen Maud Cam, first woman ever to hold a full professorship on the Faculty, recently wrote to Dean Sperry to inquire whether she might attend...
...stands now, doctors are forbidden to give advice even though it in no way runs counter to their own moral or religious convictions or that of their patients. If the bill were passed, no one would be obliged to seek or receive contraceptive information. It would only allow that woman who does not believe that contraception is against God's law to procure the advice from her physician which might save her life or preserve her health...
...director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo shook his head violently over the new ballet. Said he: "You might as well put a mustache on a Rubens." He tried to get Rodeo-and the American woman who composed it-thrown out of the company...
Sorry, Wrong Number. Inflated but fairly exciting movie version of the radio thriller about a bedridden woman who learns that she is about to be murdered, with Barbara Stanwyck and Burt Lancaster (TIME, Sept...