Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus, famed for its urbane, astute fathers, is one of the most useful male orders of the Roman Catholic Church, so the Society of the Sacred Heart, with its dozens of well-run schools and colleges which attract Protestants as well as Catholics, is outstanding among orders on the distaff side. The French woman who founded the order in 1800, Madeleine Sophie Barat, was sainted in 1925. Her resourceful and impetuous colleague, Philippine Rose Duchesne, who founded the order in the New World in 1818, lies buried in front of the frame convent she built on the Missouri River...
...16th birthday, Princess Aurora pricks herself on a distaff and falls sound asleep. Prince Désiré goes hunting, a Fairy shows him a vision of the sleeping Princess, he dances with her still asleep. But it takes over two hours to straighten her affairs. . . . Because it is the longest ballet ever written and one of the most elaborate, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is seldom danced entire. The Philadelphia Ballet Company last week made musical history by giving the first U. S.*performance without...
Complete satisfaction will be rendered to everyone concerned, including the distaff side, when the existing Two Women parietal rule is abolished in the very near future...
...done properly, it proceeds from the diaphragm and, like "squealing up,", does not tax the vocal cords. At the Michigan State Fair in Detroit last week, champion hog-caller was Pete Hellner of Washtenaw County. Champion in husband-calling, rude distaff equivalent of hog-calling, was loud Margaret Droope of Oakland County...
...rich grandsons of Mrs. Pinkham or with her richer daughter and two granddaughters. Each branch of the family has an equal share of the original stock. Few months ago the grandsons, President Arthur Pinkham, Vice President Daniel Pinkham and Secretary Charles Pinkham, got a temporary court order restraining the distaff branch of the family from "interfering in the conduct of the business." Spry, 78-year-old Mrs. Aroline Chase Pinkham Gove, Lydia Pinkham's only living daughter, countered by asking the Supreme Court of Maine, where the company is incorporated, to appoint a receiver for the company, planning...