Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposite as sunny Rome and slate-hued London are the anti-feminist theories of Dictator and Earl. The Roman by sheer ardor would explode the very notion that a "new" or "modern" woman can exist. The Londoner, icily accepting modern woman's existence, defines her function as competition with man, and brands her as a failure at her chosen game...
...Divorced Wives of Dictator Mustafa Kemal Pasha of Turkey are: first the great Halide Edib Hanoum, foremost Turkish feminist; and secondly the plump and pretty Latife Hanoum, winsome, vivacious, rich...
...Players--which claim that the female must appear in strength numerical as well as sexual. Walking in beauty from out the wings is supposed to add that intangible repondez s'il vous plait without which no galleries will be filled. We all know now what a lot of nasty feminist propaganda this is. Give Cecil Dixon the eyes wistful and blue, and riding breeches that fit in that certain way, and about nine o'clock it becomes fairly easy to predict the chances of our side...
...brains. From their evidence, Dr. James W. Papez, curator, last week concluded scientifically that all physical qualities, such as mass, formation, wrinkles, surface area, prove the female organ equal to the male. Chief among the exhibits in favor of women was the organ of Mrs. Helen Hamilton Gardener, ardent feminist but reasonable debater. Live, she had sought to prove such equality in a book, Sex in Brain. Dead (in 1925), she had willed her brain as mute, tangible evidence to clinch the argument. In the Wilder collection last week, no brain was found superior to hers...
...Born in 1810, she read Shakespeare, Cervantes, Moliere at the ase of 8 ; attended Groton School; taught in Bronson Alcott's school; became a feminist, Transcendentalist, brilliant conversationalist and essayist; reviewed books of Carlyle, Browning, Tennyson, Longfellow, Poe, Lowell, et al., for the New York Tribune under Horace Greeley; was feted in England; married a dashing Italian; experienced and chronicled the Roman Revolution. Returning home, aged 40, she was shipwrecked and drowned off Fire Island...