Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boorish and heartless exhibitions of snobbery, Captain Donald F. Smith's conduct in connection with "Miss Quonset Point" [TIME, May 2] ranks among the more nauseous of modern times. Courtesy to a "sweep-woman" could not possibly have besmirched his dignity as his act has besmirched the Navy...
Athenians do not quite understand his earnestness, candor and energy-they say hard-working Americans do not know how to live. To Greeks he typifies the vast and somewhat incomprehensible power of the U.S. A few days ago, near Van Fleet's headquarters, an old woman in black pushed past a guard and asked the general's aide if that was "Van Flit" coming down the steps. When the surprised officer nodded, the woman crossed herself, murmured "God bless him," and hurried away...
Manhattan's skyline, he wrote, consisted of "high skyscrapers and the glitter of electric advertising . . . intended to daze the unprepared visitor and muddle his ideas." Manhattan's culture provided "pseudoscientific pamphlets decorated with a standard cover: a painted man indecently kissing a woman." Even the kids were corrupt. "Steel handcuffs for small children," he reported, "attracted our attention in a toyshop...
Police revealed yesterday that Bert MacLeech, 40-yard-old student at the Graduate School of Education, was bailed out of jail late Wednesday by a woman identified as his fourth wife. MacLeech had been arrested early that morning on perjury charges, filed by officials in Tacoma, Washington...
...Stromboli last week a blonde woman, whose proud, luminous face is known to millions, paced the ashen slopes. Cinemactress Ingrid Bergman, 34, dressed in a sweater, slacks and rope-soled shoes, was trying to work out a personal problem...