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Fearful for the wartime rights of expectant mothers and expected children, famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, mother of an illegitimate "eugenic" son, urged that pregnant women receive the Army allowance regularly given to children already born (maximum weekly payment...
...reporter, mechanic, waiter, trainer to Barney Oldfield, then a famed bicycle rider. In 1899 he promoted his first major sports event, a Chicago wrestling match between Frank Gotch and George Hackenschmidt. Subsequently he promoted the famed Havana prizefight between Jack Johnson and Jess Willard, bullfights, Annette Kellerman, Mrs. Pankhurst, Rudolph Valentino, Georges Carpentier, William Jennings Bryan, William T. Tilden II, dance marathons, a flea circus and the U.S. tour of the Vatican Choir. In 1929 Promoter Curley re-popularized wrestling, had been its leading impresario ever since. For sportswriters who derided his favorite sport, Promoter Curley, famed for his good...
...meet Shaw, who reminded him of "an evergreen plant grown indoors...an antelope...chinaware," Shaw asked: "Why didn't you choose pugilism instead of poetry? They talked about plays and cathedrals; when the War was mentioned, Shaw "let out a whinny...like a young colt in distress." Sylvia Pankhurst, famed ex-suffraget leader, gave McKay a job reporting for her Workers' Dreadnought. Back in New York he became associate editor of The Liberator under Eastman, quarreled with the Reddest of his colleagues, received an office visit from Elinor Wylie, whose "beauty and Park Avenue elegance" flustered him terribly...
Before Haile Selassie left, 400 sorrowful and sympathetic British mothers called upon and curtsied low to the Ethiopian Emperor, many offering him bouquets of blossoms from their gardens. Feminist Sylvia Pankhurst even started a new London newspaper devoted to Haile Selassie's cause, called The New Times & Ethiopian News...
...Some day the crowds will be so great and so stirred up against capital punishment that the authorities won't dare go ahead with an execution. But I am before my time, I suppose. They crucified Christ, they stabbed Lincoln, they put Mrs. Pankhurst in prison, and I suppose they will martyrize me. I eat only fruit juices. I have gained 50 pounds since my husband died 18 months ago. The light of my life went out, and now my glands have ceased to function...