Word: petticoat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Since 13,900,000 women will have the vote under the new law, as against only 11,800,000 male voters, British editors asked in alarm last week: "Will the flapper vote bring Great Britain a petticoat premier...
...Petticoat government seems to be reaching international proportions. The case of Sir Eric Drummond, permanent secretary of the League of Nations, versus several million ladies illustrates the peaks to which it aspires It seems that Sir Eric., temporarily blind to the perilous consequences of the act, casually dismissed a librarian one morning whose contract had expired. That the sex of the official was feminine does not seem to have had nearly so much weight with the Secretary as with a whole hornet's nest of women's organizations. To them the deed was no less than a defiance...
...Ferguson has surrendered the governorship of Texas in a blaze of notoriety. During her term of office she has evinced an almost complete lack of executive ability and a strange predilection in favour of prisoners, over 3000 of whom she has pardoned. By a probably unprecedented reverse English on petticoat government, she is said to have been misdirected by her husband, former governor James Ferguson...
...Lace Petticoat. Years ago, Carle Carlton produced Tangerine, Irene, then turned his back on Broadway. Now he returns with Lace Petticoat. Good songs by Emil Gersten-berger and Producer Carlton, ingenious dances, Adelaide & Hughes abominable lines, stale humor! make it an uneven entertainment. Suggested by Deep River, it concerns a beautiful Louisiana nobody, whose romance is almost blasted by the rumor that she is a quadroon. In the last act, somebody says it is mere gossip. Song: "South Wind Is Calling." Tom Burke is the hero-tenor; Vivian Hart, newcomer, the joy of his stage life. Notable is a chorus...
Dorcas societies and Vincent clubs have conducted a petticoat autocracy here since time immemorial, and Boston's women have cajoled their hard-headed business minded spouses to take an interest in the arts. Now their bread has come back cake. This Woman Business is the cake. It may be baked too brown, it may even need its hair sugared. Perliaps it needs to be taken with a grain of salt as well; but Boston ate it with relish and cried 'More...