Word: bloomerism
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From 24 nations, a muscular army of 10,000 descended on Stuttgart, pitched their tents in public parks, and ate the city out of fresh fruit. Their weapons were the Indian club, the skipping rope and the trampoline; their uniforms were the leotard, the sweatshirt, and the bloomer; their hearts were uncompetitive and simon-pure. It was amateur night all week. In Stuttgart's commodious Nechar Stadium (capacity 90,000) and in 15 overflow halls around town, the third world festival of amateur gymnasts, the Gymnaestrada (the "way to gymnastics"), was under...
Candid Candidacy. After Lizzie Stanton's manifesto, the suffrage struggle raged on for half a century under the leadership of such doughty heroines as Amelia Bloomer and Susan B. Anthony. In 1869 the Wyoming territorial legislature passed a female suffrage bill, and in 1870 Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie put on a clean apron and became the first American woman ever to cast a vote in an election. Twenty years later, Congress threatened to block Wyoming's admission as a state because of the local suffrage law, and Wyoming's worried territorial delegate wired home for official...
...women's right to drown. The lifeboats of the Titanic, she insisted, should have been filled "with an equal number of men." A mammoth suffrage parade down Fifth Avenue, with Lillian Russell and 15,000 other marchers impressed the nation and won large-scale public sympathy. After that, bloomer-clad suffragettes paraded in front of the White House, pinned jonquils on the lapels of sympathetic Congressmen. Theo dore Roosevelt endorsed the cause, and in 1918 Woodrow Wilson surrendered, urged Congress to act. Two years later, after 72 years, the battle of the sexes...
...sight of several girls in gymnasium costume of bloomers and shirt waists taking part in a low hurdle race is not so common, even in these days, when exercise for women is generally approved, as to loose [sic] any of its novelty. And the girls do some good work, too. They take aptly to Mr. Graham's coaching and some of them acquire as good form as the men." The Herald coyly went on to point out that crowds of Cambridge men gathered each afternoon to watch the bloomer-clad girls exercise, and that two marriages of Summer School students...
...cramps. Angela ran off nine games in a row to win 6-8, 6-4, 6-1, tie the score at 3-3, and put the cup up to a final match of doubles between Janet Hopps and Dorothy Head Knode for the U.S. and Christine Truman and Shirley Bloomer Brasher for Britain...