Word: defender
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...floor of the House, John J. Cochran of St. Louis rose to defend the womanhood of the Government. Said he: "I wonder if Mr. Babcock gave any thought to the mental anguish he has caused, not only to the women but to their families back home...
...second team consisting of Jay W. Kaufmann, Abraham J. Lehman, and John A. Sullivan, Jr. will journey to Yale on the same day to defend the negative against the Blue orators, the announcement also said...
...Dumb!" As a gesture to U. S. public opinion, the trial of Cleveland's Roiderer last week was the first trial before the People's Court to which foreign correspondents have ever been admitted. Present also was U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had hired to defend dead-broke Roiderer a fashionable Berlin attorney...
...nervous minnow. Brought up in Miami, she was a prodigy at 7, a national champion at 13 and is now considered the ablest all-around female swimmer in the U. S. Last year "Minnow" Rawls was A. A. U. low-board diving champion. This year she decided not to defend her diving championship, to try for a clean sweep in four swimming events, the most any contestant is allowed to enter. The three she won were 100-yd. freestyle, 300-yd. medley, 100-yd. breaststroke, breaking records in each. The one she lost was the 220-yd. freestyle, to Lenore...
...bathing suit, the darkest fingernails, the broadest smile which, through all the vagaries of her career, has remained attractively inscribed upon her face as if it were a trademark. After playing about the pool and being photographed for three evenings, Eleanor Holm Jarrett last week finally jumped in to defend her 100-yd. backstroke championship. When she climbed out, she had made her title safe for another year and, as is her custom, had broken her own world's record...