Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Conference on the Cause and Cure of War. The aim was not to cause, then cure, but to investigate the cause and if possible to cure. The delegates were under the able marshalship of white-haired Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, still, at 67, the nation's chief feminist. Certain more or less prominent male publicists were asked to speak...
Aboard the Berengaria, sailing toward the land of the Duchy of Marlborough, feminist Mrs. Belmont read on in her book, her face impassive...
...take upon themselves all the characteristics of their narrow fields and rise above them to give a very fair performance. There is a retired divorce court judge, a bachelor of eighty-one, at an age when foolishness is characteristic and wisdom remarkably forthcoming. There is the host, an anti-feminist who of course gets caught, and who ought really to have known better at his age. There is the bachelor, who was jilted thirty years ago, and the married man of fifty who was happy until he quarreled with his wife over a coffee bean. They all wrangle without feminine...
...editor, one "E. R. P.", has headed each entry with" a quotation therefrom. One of these quotations appears .twice, being the thought most prominent in the lady's mind: "It is motherhood, not wifehood, that matters." She was an early feminist, having determined upon motherhood and compacted "earnestly" with her lover, a Baron, who drowned returning from Paris in 1763. "Let every woman be a mistress," she wrote, and projected a book on this theme, setting forth the naturalness of parenthood, the superiority of "naturals," the state's duty and the end of bawdry through free love...
...Here, in the prosperous bounteous United States, I feel like a maggot in a great big piece of cheese." Thus Miss E. ("Wee Ellen") Wilkinson, shingled, petite, British Laborite M. P., broached an appeal for U. S. contributions to the British coal miners strike fund last week at a feminist foregathering in Manhattan presided over by Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt. "Wee Ellen," green of hat, green-gowned, dangling jauntily a green purse continued: "Nearly a million miners are locked out,"* (TIME...