Word: miss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bellicose, able Doris Stevens proposed, founded, organized a certain thing called the Inter-American Commission of Women (a sort of handmaid organization to the Pan American Union). Miss Stevens' job does not pay anything. The commission cannot actually do anything-except find an occasional fact, present it to higher authorities. But since 1933 many a scheme to oust her as chairwoman has been hatched...
...Miss Stevens, who was once sprung from the District of Columbia jail by Dudley Field Malone* after suffrage-picketing of the White House, holds that women are created free and equal with men, scorns all protective legislation for women. To the opposite female faction-who favor not equal rights but special rights for women-it was unthinkable that Miss Stevens should occupy so exalted a post. Eleanor Roosevelt, Frances Perkins, "Molly" Dewson, and many another New Dealer belong to the opposition. Yet for ten years Miss Stevens kept her seat in spite of all the bonfires they could build under...
...crowd of fifty or more students, attracted by the stirring airs of the band and by the majorette, Miss Rennie Smith of Revere, joined the parade, while scores of others watched as it went down the street. Miss Smith, scorning the chill November wind, appeared in a costume appropriate for the occasion, and lent grace and precision to the enthusiastic but somewhat nondescript band...
...other: Miss Butterfly...
Most arresting proposal in the book (by Hunter College's Frances Morehouse) was that U. S. youngsters should get a new set of heroes. To conventional U. S. heroes, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Miss Morehouse proposed to add: Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Wright Brothers, Elias Howe, Booker T. Washington, G. W. Carver, Cyrus W. Field, Jane Addams, Dan Beard, Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh...