Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caustic review of State of the Union, TIME [May 3] said that Katharine Hepburn's God-given Hartford accent was an "affectation" sounding like a "woman trying ... to steady a loose dental brace" which "limits her range of expression." This affected "bridgework" voice did not seem to limit her range of expression in Woman of the Year, in which your reviewer said she was "just right" [TIME, Feb. 16/1942], nor in The Philadelphia Story, in which he praised her to the skies [TIME...
...reporting Diego Rivera's newest publicity-winning outburst-this time in the world of couture [TIME, May 3]-you might have added that his wife, Frida Kahlo ... is Mexico's best woman painter...
Both sides picketed, sloganeered, glowered. Then a woman shook her leaflets, shrilled with nice irrelevance at a veteran: "I'm for Wallace." He rumbled back: "I'm an American." She conked him with her handbag; a policeman, moving beefily forward, got it in the face on the rebound. The randan was on: for the next half hour the Roxy's sidewalk was busier than Union Square on an old-time...
Before the week was out, The Iron Curtain had also opened at some 380 other U.S. and Canadian theaters. Some were picketed, some were not; nowhere else were there fights. In Denver the woman manager of the Esquire sympathized with a lone picket: "You must get pretty discouraged. Come on in and see the show as the guest of the management." Said he: "I guess I might as well...
...prove a post-election brag: "We'll improve on everything Huey did." The entertainment went on & on. There was a baseball game, swimming exhibition and music by countless bands. There was also some unscheduled entertainment. Children dropped buttermilk cartons from the top of the stadium and one woman was conked by a falling whiskey bottle...