Word: americanize
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Birth Control as an open, organized movement instead of a furtive, unmentionable but widespread practice appeared again last week when the American Birth Control League held, in Manhattan, its first general conference in five years. The calibre of the sponsors suggested a changing social attitude-the wife of Morgan Partner Thomas W. Lament, the wife of Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt, Mrs. Cornelius N. Bliss, Mr. and Mrs. Harry H. Flagler, Sherwood Eddy, Norman Thomas, Mrs. Stanley McCormick, Harry Emerson Fosdick. . . . The conferees deplored the fact that there are only 29 centres in the U. S. where birth control information...
...would begin to fight. There would be terrific pandemonium, and the embers of 1 the camp fire would be scattered and the game forgotten. "The play spirit has endured. . . ." Helen Wills, world's No. 1 lady tennis-player, in the Saturday Evening Post. Anna May Wong, Chinese-American cinemactress, said: "I see no reason why Chinese and English people should not kiss on the screen, even though I prefer not to." British censors had snipped out the kisses between her and her British leading man in The Road to Dishonor. Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins, wife of the newly inducted...
...their contests, but none has been so convincing in victory, so steadily capable as this trio, the "Big Three" of 1929 football. To mention the names of a few of the players who have born the standards of these teams to victory sounds like reading an all-American team. Elder, Cannon, Carideo, Brill, Moynihan, Yunevich, Harmeson, Welch, Uansa, Parkinson and so on almost indefinitely...
...stopped everything the Crusaders could put on. Downes, a burly Sophomore center put on an exhibition of versatile and effective play such as has rarely been seen, and Murphy and Dixon proved themselves one of the best pair of ends in the whole country. The former looked like all-American timber with his bruising tackling and omnipresence, while it was only the mighty kicks of the latter that kept the Worcester boys at bay so successfully. They are a couple of players whom any coach could use. Holy Cross too had some fine men on the field, notably O'Connell...
...Little '10, former president of the University of Michigan and director of the American Society for the Corny of Cancer, will lecture on "Birth Country at the Harvard Liberal Club today...