Word: abigail
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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John was 29 and well set up in the law before he ventured to take unto himself a wife, Abigail Smith, the daughter of a Weymouth preacher. She was a lively girl of great charm and moral force who bore John's testy temper and four children (including a future President, John Quincy) with all wifely aplomb...
Concerning your Feb. 6 article, "The Sisters of Abigail Adams," Sister Bellamy's cheesecake is undoubtedly a potent example of the omnipotent female bludgeon of sex ; but for a more apt manifestation of "the most invincible feminine weapon of all," TIME should turn to the Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman version of Venus, who -. . . found herself a goddess...
...Remember the ladies," Abigail Adams wrote to her husband when he went off to help write the Declaration of Independence. "If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion." John Adams and the other signers did pretty much forget the ladies-but the ladies did not forget. Last week the sound of rebellion trilled across Capitol Hill. With banners flying, the not-to-be-forgotten sisters of Abigail Adams were on the march...
...invincible feminist, wan, whisperingly insistent, 65-year-old Alice Paul. During World War I, she had been thrown into jail for picketing the White House; she was forcibly fed when she declined to eat. She helped found the National Woman's Party. She was the spiritual sister of Abigail Adams, of Amelia Jenks Bloomer, the first bloomer girl, of those heroines of women's rights-Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott-before whose statue in the crypt of the Capitol she had posed, tight-lipped and purposeful...