Word: helene
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Publicity. Miss Helen Havener, of Portland, Me., National Publicity Chairman, reported that 776 local clubs had secured, during the year, no less than 2,990 columns of publicity. This was the equivalent of some 373 newspaper (8 column) pages...
...Denver last week at the annual convention of the Women's Overseas Service League. As the name indicates, the membership of the league is recruited from U. S. women who saw overseas service during the World War. Some were nurses, some canteen workers, some interpreters. All, as Reporter Helen Strauss of the Denver Post put it, had "fearlessly followed their sweethearts and brothers into the War zones . . . ." Of the 200 delegates, 54 were presidents of various service league units...
Chief business items of the convention included: passage of a resolution criticizing those who criticize the U. S. Government; the decision to seek Government aid for women War veterans disabled during their War-time services; the election of Miss Lena Hitchcock, of Washington, D. C., as president, succeeding Miss Helen Douglas of Atlanta, Ga. Miss Hitchcock, during the War, was therapist reconstruction aid at a base hospital, taught handicrafts to disabled soldiers...
...almost equivalent to a royal cheering section f r the great Spanish net star Señorita Lilli de Alvarez. His Majesty did not cheer, but he watched, animated. She, warmly beautiful, vivacious, and compellingly feminine, came up, last week, in the women's singles finals against Miss Helen Wills. The contrast was between darting flames and scintillating ice. Serious, studious, book-writing, sketch-drawing Helen Wills seemed, in her stiff, skeletonized cap merely efficient. Señorita de Alvarez came out onto the court in .a brilliant red sweater and turban, took off the sweater, changed the scarlet...
...sooner to dubious epigrams than to clever psychology and his wit limps much of the way. But what he does not know about ancient Rome he invents neatly. Readers with a weakness for scandal, however frail, will applaud his effort to do with Cleopatra what Professor Erskine did for Helen of Troy...