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...together: sinking of the Titanic, the Jack Johnson-Jim Jeffries fight, forced dissolution of the Standard Oil trust, electrocution of Police Lieutenant Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Gambler Herman Rosenthal. Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Halley's Comet, Ford jokes. Suffragettes Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, Evangelist Billy Sunday, the two-step, grizzly bear, bunny hug. Actress Lillian Russell, erection of Manhattan's Woolworth Building. Louis Bleriot's flight across the English Channel, nude "September Morn." dawn of psychoanalysis in the U. S., Politician "Uncle Joe" Cannon...
...little Dutchman axed Rembrandt's Anatomy Lesson (TIME, March 2, 1931). On March 10, 1914 May Richardson, famed suffraget, pulled a hatchet from her muff and slashed Velazquez's Venus and Cupid in London's National Gallery as a protest against the jailing of Emmeline Pankhurst. Until 1845 the beautiful Portland Vase in the British Museum was crackless. Then one William Lloyd suddenly dashed it from its pedestal, shattered it into pieces which were painstakingly fastened together again. In 1927 one George Latreille fell on LeNain's Réunion de Famille in the Louvre with...
...Fundamentals Association are Mrs. Finley Johnson (Helen Gould) Shepard, Dr. Howard Atwood Kelly of Johns Hopkins (TIME. April 25), Dr. Mark Allison Matthews, famed Seattle pastor, Board Chairman Henry Parsons Crowell of Quaker Oats Co. They were not present in Columbus last week, but the following were : Christabel Pankhurst, daughter of the late Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst. Said she-"The world crisis is pointing to nearness of His coming because it fulfills closely His prediction of a crisis to precede His coming." William Bell Riley, 71, executive secretary and co-founder of the Fundamentals Association. Patriarchal, resonant, he has debated many...
...court Suffraget Richardson announced the whole affair was a protest against the incarceration of Chief Suffraget Emmeline Pankhurst, at the time on a hunger strike in Holloway Jail...
...retiring to her boudoir. To be put through by telephone to the Queen Empress' boudoir one must give first a private number to the central operator, such as "K. Rose." If one does know the number and combination, one is put through instantly. Thus it happened, in the Pankhurst days of violent "Suffragets " that Queen Mary received the terrible shock of answering her boudoir telephone and having rudely shouted at her: "Are you for votes for women?" The Suffragets had wormed the secret code out of Miss Constance Selby, the Queen's dresser, for whose ability to arrange tastefully...