Word: suffragist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Died. Laurence Housman, 93, English playwright (Victoria Regina), novelist, brother of the late Poet A.E. (A Shropshire Lad) Housman, pacifist, pre-World War I woman-suffragist, satirist (The Life of H.R.H., the Duke of Flamborough); in Glastonbury, England. An icily patrician figure with dark eyebrows and a white, pointed beard, Laurence Housman described himself as "the most censored playwright in England-but the most respectable." His work was morally impeccable, but the British censor, following the letter of the law, would not allow him to present on the stage either the Holy Family (Bethlehem) or a recent monarch (prodded...
...Mexico's No. 1 suffragist and a golden-haired grandmother besides, tireless Amalia Ledon, 50, began her career as a fighter for women's rights by taking a degree at the University of Mexico back in the days when Mexican girls didn't do that sort of thing. For years, as a teacher and playwright, she preached to her often unheeding countrywomen that political action is the best way for women to beat such problems as low wage rates, legal discrimination and the double standard of morality. Moving abroad as a founder of the U.N. Commission...
...loosen some of the old restrictions on women: purdah lost ground, women got a couple of seats (which they still hold) in the parliament. But the mullahs of Islam have reasserted the old customs; the Begum Liaquat Ali Khan, widow of the assassinated Premier and once a militant suffragist, has been forced into a quiet life, and the wife of the new Premier hides uncomplainingly in strictest purdah...