Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...average TIME-reading woman has charge accounts at two department stores (one also has a charge account at a lumber yard, another at a farm equipment dealer's). Her food bill last year was $27 a week (although 11% say it was over $40). She owns 4.6 cookbooks and tried out at least one new recipe last month, which "everybody" liked. Her principal hobbies are her home and husband, sewing-dressmaking-knitting, gardening, sports, music, reading. She received a gift of flowers or candy on three or more occasions last year-and, in case anyone is interested...
From our standpoint, one of the most interesting things about the average TIME-reading woman is the fact that she has been reading TIME from six to ten years or more...
...Princess last week attended one of her last state functions as a princess-she opened an exhibition on "The Netherlands Woman, 1898-1948." She looked almost girlish in a tiny white Dutch cap, a green print dress and sandals. Her unpainted nails nervously fingered the notes from which she read her speech: "In the past 50 years woman has finally had courage to descend from her pedestal and to go to work herself in those spheres for which she had formerly been deemed too delicate . . . She had not considered that her so-called most appropriate work-the task of being...
...time to time as she followed with an obvious effort Churchill's not very difficult line of thought. Her mien was strikingly familiar: it recalled the American matron who had learned at Bryn Mawr that an active interest in public affairs was the duty of an educated, responsible woman, and who was not going to use motherhood merely as an excuse for shirking her duty...
...achieved a touch of greatness. In 1940, fleeing the Nazis, she went to Canada while her mother and husband remained in Britain. For the first time in her life she was on her own. She went to a microphone and spoke to the Canadian and American people, a simple woman, a mother, and unmistakably a princess. "Please do not regard me as too much of a stranger," she said. "But you may not know very much about me, so I had better tell you who I am. My name is Juliana ..." Then she spoke of her family, finally...