Word: lydia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brooklyn one Anthony Bridetyeski was hailed to court by his wife, Lydia, at whom he had flung shoes. The judge asked her to sentence her husband. "He's a dirty brute," said Lydia. "Give him thirty days in the workhouse." After Anthony had been sentenced, came Pat Quigley and wife, Nellie, who had been punched and kicked. Also given jurisprudence, she said: "Give him the same dose as the other fellow...
Died. Serge Diaghilev, onetime ballet master of the Russian Imperial Court, introducer of Russian ballet to the U. S.. developer of famed Dancers Nijinsky. Lydia Lopokova, Anna Pavlova; in Venice...
...Died. Lydia N. Willys, 83, of Canandaigua, N. Y., mother of Motormaker John North Willys; at Canandaigua...
...waging a hopeless battle against Insurrectos under General Miguel Valles. A stray bullet fired by an Insurrecto traversed the Rio Grande and broke a window pane on the 13th floor of El Paso's First National Bank. Also in El Paso, a two-year-old U. S. girlchild, Miss Lydia Roberts, was killed by a second stray bullet, and a third despatched "the most popular U. S. citizen in Juarez," jovial "Teddy" Barnes, bartender of the famed Mint Cafe. With a bank, a baby and a bartender all involved, General George Van Horn Moseley went into action...
...General Council in Philadelphia. Twelve men voted for the women's emancipation, six voted against it. In St. Paul, Minn., next May the General Assembly must either ratify or veto this direct departure from Saint Paul who said "Let your women keep silence. ..." The Women. The chief Lydia Pankhursts of the Presbyterian church are two, Mrs. Fred Smith Bennett and Miss Margaret E. Hodge. Mrs. Bennett has long been a cheerful gracious opponent of "silly conventions" and she has long presided over the Presbyterian Council of Women. "Why," she asks, "do women think they must wash on Mondays...