Word: joans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Drysdale of the University of London, President of the Conference, hailed Mrs. Sanger as "the Joan of Arc and the Florence Nightingale of the birth-control movement...
...Creighton, Chairman, Miss Joan Sullivan; J. W. Belser, Miss Lamora Gleason; D. G. Casto, Miss Edna Applebee; J. H. Gebelein, Miss Polly Smith; C. W. Gillies, Miss Marjorie Sullivan; Francis Millet, Miss Debora Wood; G. S. Rich, Miss Claudia Hencken; A. E. Simonson, Miss Jane Murray; J. V. D. Southworth, Miss Martha Collins; Harold Wagar, Miss Barbara Backus; C. P. Morehouse, Miss Sally Hardeastle; Mr. Henry Kass, Miss A. F. Merian...
...might have said that censorship is "vicious", or "subversive of truth". It would even have been better to say that George Washington picks the all-American football squad, and that Walter Camp was the first President of the United States: that Cleopatra was a saint, and that Joan of Arc a naughty, naughty girl; but never that censorship is un-American. Anything but that...
When little Tom, Dick and Harry and their female counterparts, Mary, Jane and Joan, gathered around the breakfast table one morning last week, according to their several dispositions, they found their parents reading with serious mien the editorial page of The New York World. Little did they know what seemingly diabolical plots were being hatched against them. Had it been otherwise, their post-toasties, shredded wheat or bran would have been pushed aside in a paroxysm of childish petulance...
...fortunately, the intellectual standard of the tolerant Enquirer is not to be imposed upon the professors; fortunately, the draught of hemlock is not to be administered to these "corrupters of youth". It is to be hoped that some charitable reader will present the editor with a ticket to "Saint Joan", if it visits Cincinnati. Perhaps he will recognize his cousin, the Curate, to whom "nothing that an Englishman thinks is heresy...