Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Thornton Wilder held court with a lady representative of "The Boston Post" last week and by yesterday was getting irate letters from local womanhood as a result of the interview...
...Stendhal character once said of women that "there's always something out of order in their machinery." Dr. Lincoln disagrees. A woman's life, she says, is roughly divided into three parts: childhood, womanhood and the years during and after the menopause. This final phase is not caused by any breakdown in a woman's machinery, says Dr. Lincoln; it is merely a part of the natural process of aging, and means that the hormone-secreting ovaries are getting tired...
...years after the birth of his child, Detroit Symphony Musician Eugene Braunsdorf did everything in his power to make her happy and comfortable. It was a heartbreaking task; Virginia was a spastic child, and grew slowly into a helpless parody of womanhood. At 21, she was only four feet tall, could not hold her head upright, and talked in gobbling sounds which only her father could understand...
...Considerable credit goes to hardworking, 35-year-old Mug Richardson, who has been with him for 16 years, ever since -as "Miss North Carolina of 1934"-she stopped off in Washington on her way to New York. Arthur, visibly impressed, pays her the highest tribute he can make to womanhood: "She's wholesome." And he adds: "I knew she wouldn't fit into the kind of razzmatazz she was headed...
...friend . . . who . . . flatly refused to let me spend a night beneath their roof." Monica hurried to sanctuary with an aunt in Sussex, then on to visit her uncle, Stanley Baldwin. But not even an ex-Prime Minister could preserve her from the sight of American soldiers pinching British womanhood, or -most "sinister portent" of all-"the spectacle of London without her railings. It was almost like seeing Queen Victoria without her clothes ... The parks . .. the sacrosanct squares . . . flung open to the vandal incursions of children and dogs." Even that oak of ages, the English language, had changed. Monica heard...