Word: janes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Most men think themselves too handsome ever to become successful stage actors," asserted Jane Cowl, star of "The Road to Rome," by R. E. Sherwood '17, last night to a CRIMSON reporter as she sat in her dressing rom dressed as Amytis, her character in the play...
...Harmon Foundation & the race-relations committee of the Federal Council of Churches, opened in Manhattan. First prize?$400?in the Harmon Competition had been awarded to Laura Wheeler Waring, who showed, among her seven prize-winning paintings, two splendid portraits of Negro women; the one of a slick brown jane, the other of an old Negress whose face was ugly...
...Gifford Pinchot, onetime (1923-27) Governor of Pennsylvania, will try to fill the vacancy. And when the seat of Senator David A. Reed of Pennsylvania comes up for election in November, able, redhaired, social-working Mrs. Gifford Pinchot will try to fill that vacancy. So, at least, rumored one Jane Randolph, Capitol newsgatherer, last week...
...subjects bound to be peculiarly within a woman's scope: like Rosa Bonheur, whose specialty was domestic animals. There are no women's names to be ranked with Velasquez, Franz Hals, Romney, Holbein. True, in literature they have done more with such handmaidens as George Eliot, Jane Austin, Charlotte Brontë, to put against Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe. But in music the situation is back again on a par with painting. Women have given birth to no great music. There have been no Beethovens among them, no Bachs, no Wagners. There have been no conductors of importance, no Toscaninis...
...Jane Addams of Chicago, international president of the Woman's International League, to tender a 30,000-signature petition for adoption of no-war treaties with France, Britain and all other governments...