Word: boons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME (Oct. 16), I read on p. 34 that the Central Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, meeting in Mil waukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood." Such inconsistency is positively nauseating. When I was a girl, doctors spent a great deal of time warning young girls of the terrible consequences of wearing corsets and pulling in their waists...
...from rejoicing at this boon to Chinese journalism, the U. S. owned Shanghai Evening Post and Mercury commented from the smug security of Shanghai's French Concession...
...friends to his ill-health, a revelation which his age (44) and general appearance of pepticity made hard to believe. The McKee record is an extraordinary one, interpretable so ambiguously that even before he made his keynote address at Cooper Union last week it was both a boon and a handicap to him. Joseph McKee was born in Newark, raised in The Bronx. He worked his way through Fordham, taught there and at De Witt Clinton High School. He went to the State Assembly in 1918, became the youngest city Judge in 1924, youngest Aldermanic President in 1926. In that...
...Republican ticket in 1917, took a leave of absence when the War broke out. He corralled a group of impatient student aviators in Paris, took them to Italy where they peppered the Austrians with bombs and propaganda for 18 months. Having a Congressman for Major was a great boon to his men, who recall him with deep affection...
...Central Association of Obstetricians & Gynecologists, meeting in Milwaukee last week, congratulated Mae West for popularizing plump female figures, called her style "a boon to motherhood...