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Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World | Audiobook with subtitles
Sketches Of The Fair Sex ANONYMOUS ( - )
Sketches of the fair sex, in all parts of the world. To which are added rules for determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguise of dress. It is our design to present a pleasing and interesting miscellany, which will serve to beguile the leisure hour, and will at the same time couple instruction with amusement. We have used but little method in the arrangement: Choosing rather to furnish the reader with a rich profusion of narratives and anecdotes, all tending to illustrate the FEMALE CHARACTER, to display its delicacy, its sweetness, its gentle or sometimes heroic virtues, its amiable weaknesses, and strange defects—than to attempt an accurate analysis of the hardest subject man ever attempted to master, viz—WOMAN. (Summary from the book)
Genre(s): Humorous Fiction, *Non-fiction, Psychology
Chapters:
0:20 | 1. In the following pages. The first woman and her antediluvian descendants. Woman in the patriarchal ages. Women of ancient Egypt. Modern Egyptian women. Persian women.
17:02 | 2. Grecian women. Grecian courtesans.
23:50 | 3. Roman women. Laws and customs respecting the roman women.
37:44 | 4. Women in savage life. Eastern women.
50:40 | 5. Chinese woman. African women.
58:36 | 6. Great enterprises of women in the times of chivalry. Other particulars respecting females during the age of chivalry.
1:11:54 | 7. French women. Italian women.
1:22:24 | 8. Spanish women. English women. Russian women.
1:34:42 | 9. The idea of female inferiority. Female simplicity.
1:52:19 | 10. The mild magnanimity of women. Female delicacy. Influence of female society.
2:11:53 | 11. Monastic life. Degrees of sentimental attachment at different periods.
2:28:24 | 12. German women. A view of matrimony in three different lights. Betrothing and marriage.
2:42:20 | 13. Female friendship.
2:48:49 | 14. On the choice of a husband.
3:09:35 | 15. A letter to a new married man. Garrick's advice to married ladies.
3:19:08 | 16. Origin of nunneries. Description of the great convent at Ajuda in Rio Janerio. Ceremony of the initiation of a nun.
3:28:22 | 17. Wedded love is infinitely preferable to variety. Italian debauchery. Naked fakiers. Mahometan plurality of wives.
3:39:26 | 18. Women of otaheite. Crim. Con. Of Claudius and Pompeii. A word to a very nice class of ladies.
3:49:00 | 19. Custom in the moghul empire. Custom of the muscovites. Sale of children to purchase wives. Polygamy and concubinage. Eunuchs. Girls sold at auction. Sale of a wife.
4:05:04 | 20. Punishment of adultery. Anecdote of cæsar. Power of marrying.
4:13:04 | 21. Celibacy of clergy. Desperate act of euthira.
4:19:56 | 22. Luxurious dress of Grecian ladies. Grecian courtship.
4:26:05 | 23. Power of philters and charms. Eastern courtship. Long hair of saxons and danes.
4:33:11 | 24. St. Valentine's day. Courts of love. Immodesty at Babylon. Indecency at Adrianople.
4:41:12 | 25. Ancient Swedish courtship. Lapland and Greenland lady.
4:46:57 | 26. Education of women in Asia and Africa. Religious festivals of the Greeks. The deaths of Lucretia and Virginia. On looking at the picture of a beautiful female.
4:59:06 | 27. Art of determining the precise figure, the degree of beauty, the habits, and the age, of women, notwithstanding the aids and disguises of dress.
5:18:46 | 28. The ideal of female beauty; or a description of the famous statue of the Venus de Medici. The first kiss of love. The death of Cleopatra.
5:35:39 | 29. An essay on matrimony (part 1).
5:51:52 | 30. An essay on matrimony (part 2).
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Dragnet: Big Kill / Big Thank You / Big Boys
Dragnet is a radio and television crime drama about the cases of a dedicated Los Angeles police detective, Sergeant Joe Friday, and his partners. The show takes its name from an actual police term, a dragnet, meaning a system of coordinated measures for apprehending criminals or suspects.
Dragnet debuted inauspiciously. The first several months were bumpy, as Webb and company worked out the program's format and eventually became comfortable with their characters (Friday was originally portrayed as more brash and forceful than his later usually relaxed demeanor). Gradually, Friday's deadpan, fast-talking persona emerged, described by John Dunning as a cop's cop, tough but not hard, conservative but caring. (Dunning, 210) Friday's first partner was Sergeant Ben Romero, portrayed by Barton Yarborough, a longtime radio actor. After Yarborough's death in 1951 (and therefore Romero's, who also died of a heart attack, as acknowledged on the December 27, 1951 episode The Big Sorrow), Friday was partnered with Sergeant Ed Jacobs (December 27, 1951 - April 10, 1952, subsequently transferred to the Police Academy as an instructor), played by Barney Phillips; Officer Bill Lockwood (Ben Romero's nephew, April 17, 1952 - May 8, 1952), played by Martin Milner (with Ken Peters taking the role for the June 12, 1952 episode The Big Donation); and finally Frank Smith, played first by Herb Ellis (1952), then Ben Alexander (September 21, 1952-1959). Raymond Burr was on board to play the Chief of Detectives. When Dragnet hit its stride, it became one of radio's top-rated shows.
Webb insisted on realism in every aspect of the show. The dialogue was clipped, understated and sparse, influenced by the hardboiled school of crime fiction. Scripts were fast moving but didn't seem rushed. Every aspect of police work was chronicled, step by step: From patrols and paperwork, to crime scene investigation, lab work and questioning witnesses or suspects. The detectives' personal lives were mentioned but rarely took center stage. (Friday was a bachelor who lived with his mother; Romero, a Mexican-American from Texas, was an ever fretful husband and father.) Underplaying is still acting, Webb told Time. We try to make it as real as a guy pouring a cup of coffee. (Dunning, 209) Los Angeles police chiefs C.B. Horrall, William A. Worton, and (later) William H. Parker were credited as consultants, and many police officers were fans.
Most of the later episodes were entitled The Big _____, where the key word denoted a person or thing in the plot. In numerous episodes, this would the principal suspect, victim, or physical target of the crime, but in others was often a seemingly inconsequential detail eventually revealed to be key evidence in solving the crime. For example, in The Big Streetcar the background noise of a passing streetcar helps to establish the location of a phone booth used by the suspect.
Throughout the series' radio years, one can find interesting glimpses of pre-renewal Downtown L.A., still full of working class residents and the cheap bars, cafes, hotels and boarding houses which served them. At the climax of the early episode James Vickers, the chase leads to the Subway Terminal Building, where the robber flees into one of the tunnels only to be killed by an oncoming train. Meanwhile, by contrast, in other episodes set in outlying areas, it is clear that the locations in question are far less built up than they are today. Today, the Imperial Highway, extending 40 miles east from El Segundo to Anaheim, is a heavily used boulevard lined almost entirely with low-rise commercial development. In an early Dragnet episode scenes along the Highway, at the road to San Pedro, clearly indicate that it still retained much the character of a country highway at that time.