Word: eliza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thirty fourth-graders from the Fitzgerald School spent a week researching Cambridge history to make a presentation at the dinner. Did you know that Eliza Howe invented the sewing machine here in Cambridge? And Alexander Graham Bell tested his telephone here? One boy had a lot to say about Harvard, or rather the Harvard hockey team. "They have a good hockey team at Harvard. I have seen them play many games and they have some rough goalies. You can see them play yourself for one, two, or three dollars," he said...
...Eliza Bailey...
Kenya's Eliza. In a massive rejection of traditional roles and values that might be called the African counterpart of the Women's Liberation movement, hundreds of thousands of African girls have left their villages to go to school, and have never returned. In the Ivory Coast, seven times as many women as men are moving to the cities. Some join the growing student population; 40% of Kenya's secondary school pupils and 10% of its students overseas today are women. Others manage to find jobs as shopgirls, typists and clerks. In Monrovia, Liberia, women drive cabs...
...time of independence, crash courses were held in many African capitals to teach the wives of government officials the niceties of Western manners. The handsome Ngina Kenyatta, fourth wife of Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta, 79, is an African answer to Eliza Doolittle. She is said to have spent a year being coached by British instructors in deportment, table manners, fashion, ballroom dancing and public speaking before emerging as "Mama...