Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Your description (Dec. 5) of the Wiesbaden area is one-sidedly accurate. The other side is bigger and longer. Sure, there's an active social life. We must keep busy. Do you prefer that we exploit the reputation of American womanhood by engaging in quiet prostitution and Gasthaus lounging, or should we keep active in scouting, P.T.A., women's clubs and civic activities? The women's club I belonged to adopted a German orphanage; we delivered food to German refugees living in the basement of bombed-out buildings-so dirty that the average American woman would have...
...reached the respectable state of a grandfather and who therefore is supposed by some not to take any notice of or interest in such things, I approach you with diffidence. I have, Sir, however, of recent months received the impression that a remarkable transformation has overtaken our womanhood, both young and not so young. To my eyes, watching them going about their daily tasks, they appear to have flowered in an extraordinary fashion...
...retirements : two fiftyish former cinema stalwarts - Anna May Wong, 53, who quit the screen 17 years ago after count less mystery women roles in Fu Manchu and Charlie Chan easterns; and Leni Riefenstahl, 53, German film star of the 1930s, called by Hitler "the perfect ex ample of German womanhood," who will redirect a remake of a movie in which she once starred, The Blue Light...
...classic campaign biography should sound like a chorus of When the Saints Go Marching In. It should present its hero as both liberal and conservative, fearless and cautious, witty and generous, as a model of propriety and sagacity, and a lover (figuratively and respectfully speaking) of American womanhood. In this presidential year, as usual, nearly all of the major candidates are on view.* Some of the portraits present the usual saintly features, while others are outright smears. A few are honest attempts to measure the candidates in more than one dimension...