Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twenties for Toft. A plain, unexcitable, grey-eyed blonde, Bazy parts her bobbed hair in the middle, does not worry herself too much about what the well-dressed woman should wear, expresses her urge for personal ornamentation by wearing spangle-studded glasses and chunks of costume jewelry. She got her elementary lessons in journalism as an 18-year-old reporter on her mother's Rockford (Ill.) morning Star, covering everything from farm news to a "dance-athon," and writing two columns. In 1941, Bazy married Maxwell Peter Miller Jr., now 30, a socialite defense-plant worker, University of Chicago...
Except for Fanny Brice, as Baby Snooks, no woman comic has ever seriously challenged radio's top funnymen. Most radio comediennes (Mary Livingstone, Portland Hoffa, Jane Ace, Gracie Allen) stick to mixed-doubles family comedy...
...produced a package of priestly "high treason." The Rev. Alois Fajstl, the state announced, had been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment plus confiscation of his property and loss of civil rights for ten years. The charge: when called to give the last rites of the church to a woman apparently dying of pneumonia, Father Fajstl first asked if she were a Communist, then withheld the sacrament until she had sent her son to party headquarters to turn in her membership card. Instead of dying, the government said, the woman recovered and denounced the priest for thus applying the recent...
Father Fajstl was reported to have denied the charge, refusing at the same time to reveal what actually took place at the woman's bedside, on the grounds that this would be breaking the seal of the confessional...
Superstitions sometimes cancel each other out. The Duke of Wellington, who believed that putting a pair of shoes on a table meant that their owner would be hanged, once fired a servant for jeopardizing a young woman's life in this manner. But British jockeys like to find their shoes on a table, turn white with worry when they find them on the floor. Winston Churchill reversed custom with his wartime V-for-Victory sign. Italians and Spaniards, who used the same two fingers to represent the horns of the devil, pointed them downward when they wanted to keep...