Word: bloomerism
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...Betty Bloomer was not only a Powers model and a Martha Graham dancer before she married Gerald Ford in 1948; she had also been married. In 1942 Betty had wed a Grand Rapids neighbor, Furniture Salesman William Warren. Then in 1947, the couple were divorced on grounds of incompatibility, Betty being granted a token settlement of $1. A year later, she and Jerry Ford were married in a Grand Rapids church with the blessing of an Episcopal bishop. There has been no effort on her part, or on anyone else's, to conceal this historical footnote. The Vice President...
...14th Amendment in 1868 enfranchised blacks, but not women. In 1913 some 5,000 women, many of them bloomer-clad, marched down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue carrying placards addressed to Woodrow Wilson: MR. PRESIDENT...
...Late Bloomer...
BESIDES Beverly Sills, the other leading heiress to Maria Callas' artistic legacy is the Australian coloratura soprano Joan Sutherland. Sutherland, 45, sings many of the same roles as Sills and, like Sills, was a late bloomer-she burst onto the international scene with a Lucia di Lammermoor at Covent Garden in 1959. Otherwise the two are a study in contrasts: separate conjugations of greatness. Each has her passionate following. Ask a Sutherland admirer about Sills' voice and he might say, "Pretty, but thin." Ask a Sillsian about Sutherland and he might retort, "Beautiful, but boring." Still, all would...
...life as in his art, Constable was a late bloomer. At the age of 33, he fell in love with Maria Ricknell, the 21-year-old granddaughter of a crusty, wealthy Stour Valley rector, who threatened to cut her out of his will if she married the impecunious painter. Prudently, Constable and Maria waited seven years. Finally, in 1816 his father died, leaving him with enough of an inheritance at 40 to marry and support a wife and children (they had seven). Virtually all Constable's greatest paintings were done after his marriage...