Word: jessica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl of Northesk: "Visiting in Buffalo with my fiancee, Jessica Brown, former dancer, I was taken down with appendicitis and operated on. Newspapers report that 'naturally nothing will be done' (as to our wedding) until I recover...
...Francisco Chronicle takes exception to the statement of Professor Jessica B. Peixotto, of the University of California, that college graduates (female)-western college graduates presumably-make the best wives. It particularly objects to Dr. Peixotto's statement that such wives are made desirable by their greater urge to regulate "community life." That, says The Chronicle, means the life of other families. And one family at a time is enough. The Superintendent of Schools at Newark, N. J., banned the Red Cross text-book on hygiene and home care of the sick because it advises that alcohol and whiskey...