Word: janee
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...opened his mouth to sing, Whiz! went an egg hurled by a girl in the front row. Plop! a second egg spattered against the backdrop, dribbled down to the floor. Plop! Plop! Plop! Baritone Hutton lumbered off stage. As stage hands mopped up the eggs, police arrested one Jane Thomas. Next day she paid $5 fine per egg, declared: "I believe it was worth it." Mrs. Hutton remarked: "Wasn't that too bad? But the way of the transgressor is hard...
...Cooms, Joan Stoddard, J. P. Reisman, Eleanor Packard, William Ray, G. Louise, Robert H. Walker, Arky deRosset, H. G. White, A. P. Felton, Catherine E. Jodoin, J. McClellan Laughin, Marguerite Walsh, Kenneth G. Cloby, D. Armstrong, Barbara Cobb, Barbara Cox, Robert' A. Sard, Henry P. Walker, Jr., John Mitchell, Jane Hawkes, Augusta Flagg, Fonchen Usher, William W. Lord, Jane Gilman, Helena Niescherg, Winston J. Rowe, William Dennis, Miss H. Randal, Erik Lundberg, Franklin C. Forbes, L. A. Vigneras, G. Fuler, Willys Spencer, Peggy Moss Priscilla Wedger, Edwin Parkin, Donald Collins, Allice Parker. P. M. Mason, Wil-G. Chase, Henrietta Young...
...Baker, Eleanor Friedman, Charles B. Feibleman, Cyrus Wood, R. M. Low, Barbara Klingenhargen, James P. Reiher, Lillian Townesed, G. C. Kibbs, Leda Wilson, John P. Faville, E. H. Pringle, Jr., Brad Datson, W. L. Dana, J. DeQ. Briggs, Mary Morse, H. Babcock Brown, Eleanor Howe, Stanley D. Peirce, Jane Ewell, Edward Rowe, Marguerite Roberts, James Fella Hill, Alice Roberts, Adele Joan Lambrose, Charles A. Dale, Spencer D. Ortherger, Catherine Fitzgerald, Joseph F. Fitzgerald, Anastasia Seramovna, David Worcester, V. O. Jones...
...came Lena Madesin Phillips, Manhattan lawyer, organizer and onetime president of the Federation of Business & Professional Women's Clubs. She opened the conference with the gavel used by Susan B. Anthony. To help settle the conference question, "How best can we serve our common cause-civilization?" came Jane Addams, Carrie Chapman Catt, Authoress Mary Ritter Beard, and many a foreign notable. From England came Dame Rachel Crowdy. only woman ever appointed a section head (Social Questions and Opium Traffic) of the League of Nations, and Margaret Grace ("Saint Maggie") Bondfield, first woman member of a British Cabinet (Labor...
...waiting to the Empress Akiko, it has been a widely-known classic in Japan since 1022. When British Scholar Arthur David Waley brought out the first volume of his translation (1925), critics tumbled over themselves to get within wreath-throwing distance. The Tale of Genji was compared to Proust, Jane Austen. Boccaccio. Shakespeare. Its translator calls it "by far the greatest novel of the East and one which, even if compared with the fiction of Europe, takes its place as one of the dozen masterpieces of the world." With The Bridge of Dreams, the sixth volume, The Tale of Genji...