Word: suffragists
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...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...
Died. Dr. Alice Salomon, 76, pioneer social worker and suffragist (the "Jane Addams of Germany") who was exiled by the Nazis in 1937; in Manhattan...
...Chevikiar Ibrahim*,72, great-granddaughter of Mohamed Ali (founder of Egypt's modern royal dynasty), cousin of King Farouk and first wife of his father (the late King Fuad, whom she divorced while he was still Crown Prince), grande dame of Cairo society, authoress, philanthropist, five-times-married suffragist leader; in Cairo...
...Secretary of State for India and Burma, the Right Honorable Frederick W. Pethick-Lawrence, 73. Once a militant suffragist, Minister Pethick-Lawrence took his wife's name (Pethick), went to jail with her. Last week King George VI made him a baron. Minister of Health Bevan once referred to the new baron as "that crusty old Tory who still sticks in the Labor Party...
Laid in an Eastern town in 1861, Bloomer Girl features revolt as well as romance. Evelina Applegate (played by thin-voiced but charming Celeste Holm) is the daughter of a stuffy manufacturer of hoopskirts, the niece of a suffragist proponent of bloomers. The young lady throws in her lot with her aunt, who also hides fugitive slaves. As a result, Evelina quarrels with her Kentucky beau (David Brooks), owner of one of the fugitives; and when Auntie gets pinched for crusading, Evelina accompanies her to jail. In musicomedy, however, stone walls do not an ending make...