Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Manhattanites were made conscious last week that women doctors have been operating a hospital in the community for 79 years. The New York Infirmary for Women & Children has never had a man on its staff, although male specialists come in for consultations...
...youngsters at Hun School in Princeton, N. J. the Besler boys were usually mistaken for twins. (Now William is dark, slender; George is blond, stocky, has a mustache.) As Princeton undergraduates they played polo, learned to fly, owned planes. As graduates they became steam-engine conscious, as are all Beslers because of the family's substantial interest in Davenport Locomotive Works. They went to California and got control of Doble Steam Motor Corp., which had been in difficulties, began producing steam automobiles, steam trucks and busses. About three years ago the Beslers and their friend Clement Harts began experiments...
Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan is one of those U. S. women who is conscious of having exerted a considerable influence, not counting her husbands. During her second marriage (to Edwin Dodge, Boston architect) her salon in Florence was famed throughout Europe. "Everybody" in the art world visited her, from Gertrude Stein to Eleonora Duse. In Manhattan she was a hospitable hostess to Lincoln Steffens, the late John Reed, Walter Lippmann, Emma Goldman, Carl Van Vechten, Robert Edmond Jones. She was largely responsible for the art exhibition which featured the famed cubist A Nude Descending the Staircase. Her fourth...
...demonstrated to President von Hindenburg," boasted young Dr. Goebbels. "how necessary it was to create such a department. . . . We must create a Press joyously conscious of its responsibility to the Fatherland! . . . We must catch the soul vibrations of the German people. . . . Ach, Meine Herren, think of the Press as a great keyboard on which the Government can play...
...general concensus of opinion of the haberdashers on the Square, Harvard men lack the courage to venture forth in Old Dame Fashion's latest. This, it was agreed, accounted for the supremacy of Princeton and Yale over Harvard when it comes to setting the styles. Harvard is not style conscious, the Knights of the Garter conceded, and her sons scoff at the new and seemingly "race-trackish" models in clothes, only to adhere to them a year or so later...