Word: headed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Miss Helen Wills, California tennis girl, as head of the sports division of the Women's Committee. Reason: "Youth's earnest desire to be of service...
...inhabitants emigrate to the U. S. or elsewhere. Of these emigrés there was a gathering last week in Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland Manxmen to the number of 600 attended, World Manxmen to the number of 400, and Manxmen direct from Man to the number of 26. At the head of these came one Alderman B. Crookall, member of the lower branch of the legislature...
Women Patients. In foyers, away from the mass meetings, the men discussed what to do with prudish or amorous women patients. The best conduct, by general approval, is to treat the woman impersonally, as if she were a mere head of beef. Let the prude bring in a companion; let the companion sit guard in an uncomfortable iron chair. Many women become amorous as they recline in the dentist's chair. The prudent dentist hurts such patients enough to make them forget their involuntary eroticism. All agreed that the practitioner who coos to female clients is a fool...
...Jackson was quick to defend her honor, and his, in a series of duels. Gossip revived nonetheless every time Jackson ran for office-a frequent occurrence, for he was representative to Congress at Philadelphia (where as a Democrat he disapproved the aristocrat's salons), Senator, head of the state militia, President of the U. S. Election to this post he won chiefly by his spectacular defeat of the British in a campaign which he conducted with fury, picturesque oaths, and sound good sense...
...Coney Island, N. Y., one Ali Afgudiniali, a Hindu watchman, was robbed by three men. With two of them he fought bravely but when he saw that the third was a midget not more than a yard high with a huge horrible head and the hands of a pudgy baby, he tried to run away...