Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seven fliers and their rescuers (Lieut. Colonel Emil Beaudry and Lieut. Charles Blackwell*) were whisked off to a midtown hotel, which was to be their garrison for the next few days. As they entered the lobby a dark-haired woman bounded over to one of them, Glider Pilot Howard Halstead, handed him a piece of paper and wished him a happy New Year. The woman was his wife; the paper was a summons charging him with desertion. He shrugged her off, explained that he had divorced her and remarried...
Thomas Burke is one of the few men in Cambridge who can tell a woman off and get away with it. Patrolman Burke puts in more than ten hours each weekday in publicly villifying errant drivers, jay-walkers, and absent-minded pedestrians from his green-painted booth in Harvard Square, and gets considerable pleasure out of this. "There is no doubt," claims Burke, "that women are much worse drivers than men. They spend all their time lookin' around at things, and none of it lookin' at the road. And when they have some one else in the car with...
Prior to the discussion the story of a 55-year-old woman "too courageous to cry" was dramatized by students of local colleges to present the problem of "Why has mother become so abnormal lately?" Father Edward H. Nowian of Boston College joined Allport in analyzing the effects of no emotion on her personality...
...tough little tyke of her earlier musicals. In "Along Fifth Avenue" a new revue now in its final week here, she shows considerable development and improvement in her clowning and has acquired finesse--or is it moderation--in her delivery that is going to make her the funniest woman on the American stage...
Every now and then a movie is created which is so vital, so heartwarming that it must be seen by every man, woman, and child in America. Such a movie usually wins the Academy Award. In the meantime, however, the film companies must keep on putting out other less inspired pictures to stay in the black. Under these circumstances Paramount produced "The Paleface," a drama of the Old West which concerns the famous Calamity Jane and a mousy dentist. All who go to see this film with an open (preferably blank) mind will probably think it somewhere between riotous...