Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Haitian color he could get. Staff artists sculptured likenesses of Haitian beauties, chipped out brilliantly colored linoleum murals recording Haitian history from Toussaint 1'Ouverture to President Dumarsais Estimé. A good third of the grounds was marked as the special Haitian sector. Here earringed women would sell mahogany and wicker, while in a small nearby stadium other Haitians would drum, dance and stage cockfights...
...When a prim group of elderly American women visited his Mexico City salon a few weeks ago, plump Dress Designer Henri Chatillon disappeared into a dressing room, rustled out a few seconds later in a flowing black gown and a big hat. "I shocked hell out of them," he tittered, "but I did have a good time...
...believe we of England have a harmonious feeling for Southern women," observed Gertrude Lawrence, who will play the Southern mother in the movie version of The Glass Menagerie. "They are usually reposed, quiet-spoken and gentle in their manner. You'll find that true of most English women...
Grandfather of the Year (named by Chicago's Grandfathers and Grandmothers Club): Vice President Alben W. Berkley ("all the world loves a lover"). Grandmother of the Year: mad-hatted Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper ("interested in everything that women are interested...
Among the U.S.'s most beautiful Negro women (listed by John Robert Powers in Ebony magazine): Contralto Marian Anderson ("an impressive personality and most presentable manners"), Mrs. Ralph Bunche ("dignity, attractive personality, character and a wonderful, soft, feminine beauty"), Hollywood's Scorch Singer Lena Home ("the best example I know of 'outer glow' and 'inner glow' delightfully joined...