Word: suffraget
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...stocky red-headed youngster, she ran away from the Westphalian home to England. After, drab vicissitudes there she became an actress of small parts, famed in a minor way for her vigorous championing of underdogs. One day she heard Emmeline Pankhurst speak on suffragism. Miss Marion* became a militant suffraget. To break her first plate-glass window she was obliged to throw two bricks, because "I didn't know how hard you had to heave to really break the glass." She went to jail, the first of seven such trips. Four jail terms she went on hunger strikes...
When the War began she came to the U. S. to be Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont's suffraget aid. While doing that she learned of Margaret Sanger's trouble with the police over birth control advocacy. Kitty Marion offered to busk the promising but innocuous Birth Control Review at Manhattan's busiest corners. She has been doing that for the past 13 years...
Pomeroy has a notion he deserves a pardon, that he has been punished enough. In 1925 a suffraget daughter of Lucy Stone wrote a newspaper letter against the release of Pomeroy. She charged that his crime was worse than that of Loeb and Leopold, that he was unregenerate, that in his cell he had skinned alive a kitten. From jail Pomeroy hired a lawyer, filed a $5,000 libel, was awarded damages of $1 which he never collected, preferring to hold the court order for payment as a "vindication." In his cell he learned several languages, wrote poetry, was called...
...fearing Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, who once denounced the late Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst as an "unnatural woman," repented last week. When asked if he would unveil a bronze likeness of Suffraget Pankhurst, subscriptions for which are now being solicited, he said, "I will...