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Word: womens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There's a word for you," says Joan Crawford to Norma Shearer after losing a bitter battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 9/23/1939 | See Source »

...other advice to London women last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Copy for War | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Women (Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell; TIME, Sept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

British Captain-Couturier Edward Henry Molyneux, slim, blond women's fashion stylist who won a British Military Cross in World War I, moved his salon from Paris to Limoges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...Westermarck championed the single standard for marriage, tilted against companionate marriage, polygamy, adultery, homosexuality. His concluding sentence in the first editions of The History of Human Marriage won him honorary vice-presidencies in two feminist societies: "The history of human marriage is the history of a relationship in which women have been gradually triumphing over the passion, prejudices, and selfish interests of men." In 1921, concluding that Woman had been outpaced by Civilization, he deleted the sentence. One moonlight night on the Isle of Capri, a U. S. woman artist invited him to dinner, proposed marriage. By producing pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 18, 1939 | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

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