Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Christophe. In Annette and Sylvie (Vol. I), the heroine, Annette, has her illegitimate son by Roger Brissot. In Summer (VoL II) she continues her emotional development, with three men, none of whom is quite the right one. Presumably, happiness awaits her in Vol. IV, now being prepared. Author Rolland, feminist as well as pacifist, is anxious to make Annette self-sufficient, Woman triumphant. With his gathering years, however, his writing shows a less continuous alertness to the boundary which divides emotion from sentimentality...
...Chortled when a backbencher "Wet" cried to famed feminist exponent of temperance Viscountess Nancy Astor, M. P.: "What does the noble lady know from experience of the effects of small beer? The noble lady should become a member for one month of the Ancient Order of Frothblowers and diligently observe their slogan: 'Gallup your beer with zest...
Undaunted, the feminists and their Communist leaders marched away to the house of a rich Persian merchant. His wife they suspected to be held imprisoned and frequently castigated because she had ventured to enter a bazaar veilless some months ago, had been seized by her husband's retainers, shut up in solitude. With the assistance of the Russian police, roused to investigate the Persian's house, a door was forced and the inner compound entered. At a stake set up in a pool of muddy offal was found, chained like a dog, the merchant's feminist wife...
...General" Rosalie Gardiner Jones, a few years younger than Senator Dill, more charming than the usual caricature of a suffragette, one of the leaders of the feminist invasion of Washington through the mud of 1913; once a Chevrolet mechanic who was rewarded with the famed "yellow suffrage car" in which she toured New York State; a chicken farmer; a collector of book plates; a licensed attorney; the manager of the $5,000,000 estate left to her and her two brothers...
...feminist problem was dropped when Rev. T. T. Shields of Toronto, Canada, President of the Bible Union, launched into an attack on John D. Rockefeller Jr. He charged Mr. Rockefeller and his pastor, Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick of the Park Avenue Baptist Church, with trying to transform the Northern Baptist Convention into "the Religious Department of the Standard Oil Co." All of which was promptly denied by Mr. Rockefeller through...