Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engaged. Joan Fry, 24, British woman tennist; and a Lieut. Thomas Lakeman of the British Army tank corps; announced at Wimbledon on the eve of her Wightman Cup match against Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...
...Many an individualistic woman of long ago bobbed her hair, viz., Joan of Arc, Lady Caroline Lamb (one of Byron's friends), George Sand...
Simon & Schuster, spectacular young concern (Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster) who gave to the U. S. crossword puzzles, Trader Horn, Story of Philosophy, Joan Lowell. This firm is unique for its high average sale of its comparatively few books...
...despatch was allowed to pass in which she was quoted as saying: "I go to Death or Victory. ... I feel as Joan of Arc must have felt, under divine inspiration! ... I shall cut their barbed wire fence with pliers and seize the salt with my own hands. . . . Neither jail nor Death hold any terrors...
...this time despatches at first reported that the British police officer asked Mrs. Naidu whether she would like to be sent back to her encampment in a comfortable limousine. India's matronly Joan of Arc was said to have voluntarily accepted, and, leaving her followers to trudge after the limousine, left the field of "Death or Victory" in pusillanimous, soft cushioned ease...