Word: heyday
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Thus, at London last week, famed "militant suffragette" Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, now a venerable steady-going matron, reminisced to newsgatherers. Recalling the heyday of her truculence, just before British women won suffrage (1917), Mrs. Pankhrust said...
...most cases this undergraduate suspicion is well founded. But there is another reason for presidential isolation. Modern four-button, Ide collar undergraduates are more sophisticated than they were in the heyday of the turtlenecked sweater. They are finicky about their friends. They would be standoffish should any president seek to backslap and fraternize. Often they are best left to their self-sufficient devices. "Perhaps," said a jokester, "only fools rush in where Angells fear to tread...
...youth, Joanna Southcott of Devonshire, England, was a domestic servant. Later, she became a mystic and dictated prophecies (in rhyme). She fully expected to be the mother of the "true Messiah." But no Messiah came, even though 100,000 people believed in Prophetess Southcott in her heyday. In 1814 she died, leaving an eleven-pound box with instructions that it should not be opened except in time of national stress and in the presence of 24 bishops. During the last century, certain Britishers have been reported as going into trances over this box. However, it was never opened, chiefly because...
...judges waited eagerly, hoping that Mrs. Rosie Bevan (nee Wilmot) would put in an appearance. Mrs. Bevan, a peasant of Kent, England, claims to be "world's ugliest woman." In her heyday she won many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...
...came from Italy some 40 years ago, Carlo Salvatore Cicero, with shears and razors; a barber, aged 16. He found work in the old Astor House and ran a shop of his own in Pearl Street after hours. It was a heyday of whiskers; one's pompadour was as important as one's politics...