Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...window to Joan of Arc in the Ethical Church of London contains a three-quarter length portrait of George B. Shaw and the late Anatole France. Questioned as to why he was in the picture, the author of the play Saint Joan replied with characteristic pretentious affectation: "You had better go and ask Anatole France...
...Legation in Warsaw; Miss Jean Field Blair, Richmond, Va.; Miss Mary Louise Butterfield, Chestnut Hill, Mass.; Miss Elizabeth Irving Chase, Waterbury, Conn.; Miss Suzette Dewey, Chicago; Miss Helen Edwards, Cincinnati; Miss Betty Galey of London, daughter of the Director of the American University Union and Miss Joan Williams, Chicago...
Heywood Broun-"The man who wrote Saint Joan can now condescend a little to the author of Caesar and Cleopatra . . . much slipshodery in the first night performance...
...MALLEY OF SHANGANAGH?Donn Byrne?Century ($1.25). It was a rare, lovely lady that de Bourke O'Malley saw in her white religious robes in the convent garden. She saw a fine young sunburned soldier, and his speech was gentle. So she gave over being Sister Ursula and became Joan O'Malley, religious no longer, though she had given herself in marriage to her Lord Christ Jesus...
...Pitt, of Dumas fils, of the young Adams, the young Hammond, the young Rockefeller. "Just like his father, only more so," said the ancients when Philip's son, Alexander, became tearful with success. But who was Cleopatra's daughter? What heroine did Dido mother? Joan of Arc, Queen Bess, Florence Nightingale, Jane Addams are all ineligible by hypothesis; and it is not recorded that Sarah Bernhardt had a daughter. But what of Portia and other married celebrities? The distaff side seems never to have been illustrious twice running, possibly for the reason that most women acquire fame...