Word: distaff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Distaff Side (by John Van Druten; Dwight Deere Wyman and Auriol Lee, producers). This quiet study of womanly nobility serves chiefly to break the monotony of dirty but dull plays which all but engulfed the Broadway stage last month. In it Sybil Thorndyke, Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire, returns for the first time in 24 years...
...Philadelphia last week journeyed 1,700 women, young and old, as delegates from 600 communities and seven lands, to the biennial national convention of the Y. W. C. A. There many a one had her first chance to see a pleasant-faced Dutchwoman who is the distaff equivalent of the Y. M. C. A.'s Dr. John R. Mott- president of the World Council which supervises the shelter, polite recreation and moral uplift of 1,000,000 women in 50 nations. Jonkvrouwe Cornelia M. van Asch van Wyck, 44, is a member of an ancient Utrecht family which...
...President Hoover received mighty support from the nation's women. But so much help had come to the Roosevelt cause this year from the distaff side of the Electorate that there was talk of putting a woman in the Roosevelt cabinet. Candidates...
Born at Wimbledon, England, in 1895, Graves had English, Irish and German blood in him. On the distaff side he was related to the Saxon von Rankes, several of whom fought in the German army during the War. One of his English ancestors and namesakes invented "Graves' disease." His father was a school inspector, and wrote poetry. When he told his children stories he never began, "Once upon a time,'' but ''And so the old gardener blew his nose on a red pocket handkerchief." At 14 Graves went to Charterhouse, famed English public school...