Word: needlework
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pleasure Dome? In Mineola, N.Y., county-fair officials sought a new and better name for the "Ladies' Building," traditional exhibition place for needlework and preserves...
...ensign, a regimental standard, and six company guidons comprised the set, which was received by Officer-in-Charge Commander Macgowan in behalf of the entire regiment. The colors were purchased with money raised by this and the previous class of the Harvard NTS, and the needlework on the guidons was done by the Navy Wives of Cambridge...
...equipped with reforming zeal, a philosophical and inquisitive mind, and a huge, old-fashioned ear trumpet which she aimed like a blunderbuss at the people she questioned. She discovered that only seven occupations were open to U. S. women: domestic service, keeping boarders, teaching young children, needlework, weaving, typesetting and bookbinding.* In 1840 two U. S. ladies, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, attended a World's Anti-Slavery Conference in London, were first barred because of their sex, then permitted to listen to the proceedings from behind a screen. They walked down Great Queen Street that night, boiling...