Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spite of the standard fumbles at the altar, the U.S.'s beamish Vice President (the first to be married while in office) was as bubbling as ever. As the triumphant wedding music boomed out, hordes of twittering women converged on the entrance and television crews flicked on their lights. "I hate to go out there and face that mess," said the new Mrs. Barkley. "That's no mess, my dear," boomed the Veep. "That's the American people...
Four weeks ago, just after the Princeton game, a reasonable new yellow Ford convertible owned by a student returning from the game was crinkle-fendered by another car at the intersection of Bow and Mt. Auburn streets. A week later two Malden women were jarred when their car was struck, deflected, and deposited on the sidewalk at the same corner. A few hours later, another car was damaged as it remained stationary at the corner. These accidents represent but three in a long series of traffic mishaps at the confluence of these, streets, an intersection which a police official...
...brush vertically, in the Chinese way, and drawing from the shoulder instead of the wrist), and solemnly assured him that had he been born in Europe his name would have been Picasso. The Lucky Strike people asked Foujita for a testimonial; his response (for use in Paris newspapers): "Women like to kiss me because I smoke Lucky Strikes...
...notion of awarding a B.A. after sophomore year scandalized the rest of the educational profession. On the University of Wisconsin campus the Chicago B.A. was called the Bastard of Arts. The Association of American Colleges and the American Association of University Women "deplored" it. It was, recalls Hutchins, "an alltime high in educational deploring...
...hooligans shouting in the balcony began to get too personal. On his way to make a movie in England, Robert Taylor found two bobby-soxers under his stateroom bed on the Mauretania. As a fledgling of 21, making his first tour, William Holden suffered hotel-room invasions by voracious women. In 1946, at London's first Royal Film Performance, a Hollywood contingent headed by Ray Milland touched off a mob scene that sent three fans to the hospital and 100 to first-aid stations...