Word: clubwomen
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...introduce into the normal lives of Artist Dicky Graham and Madge a series of domestic disturbers, devilish dervishes, droll dolts. But, always, Sentiment is the essential ingredient in Revelations of a Wife. It appeals, not to shopgirls who want a seduction in every chapter, but to housewives and clubwomen who read more fiction than any other group of U. S. inhabitants...
...through Florida with golf at the stops. He was bustling about Massachusetts at a great rate, telling how the colleges should be run† getting after his Attorney-General for what looked like scalawaggery,** and booming other men so generously that in a speech to a large bevy of clubwomen he slipped into an absurdity. "I would like," he said, "to place before you for consideration the ticket of Hoover and Lindbergh...
College women and colored women, trained nurses and Jewesses, married ladies with their maiden names and Mormon ladies without; needleworkers, peace workers, young Christian women workers, women voters, women mutual-improvers, Christian temperance women, clubwomen, business women, professional women, housewives, "home girls" and a few common everyday women?representatives, in short, of the 34 women's organizations for which the National Council of Women aims to be a guide and interpreter, met last week in Manhattan. President Valeria H. Parker, a doctor of medicine, sex-hygienist and flood relief worker, presided over them all and was reelected...
...Clubwomen enjoy straight-from-the-shoulder speaking. So they enjoyed perhaps most of all a characteristic chastisement from Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who snapped: "We are too sentimental, too emotional. But if we did what we ought to do we would call together all the presidents of all women's organizations (there must be a million of them) and, meeting in one room in private, discuss some fundamental questions. They would be: 'Where are we at?,' 'How much of the work that we women do outside the home is just like a kitten chasing its tail...
...hundreds of thousands of U. S. clubwomen already know, Playboy Halliburton did swim the Hellespont, to catch up with Byron and Leander. And the dourest male skepticism will be disarmed by our hero's frank confessions that he took a taxi over the last seven miles of his race from Marathon to Athens in the very tracks of Pheidippides; that diving for sponges in the Gulf of Gabes gave him an earache...