Word: wifely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Swarthmore. You have failed to state that the same institution, at the same time, conferred a degree on Marion Edwards Park! President of Bryn Mawr. I infer that it is not accounted "lese majeste" to mention the President of Bryn Mawr College in the same class with the wife of the President of the United States...
...Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York. She inquired "whether it would be possible to constitute a committee of women of your own standing in the social world, who would interest themselves in creating sentiment for observance of the Prohibition laws within their own circles. My eventual desire," said she, "is to form a national committee composed...
Still badgered about his wife's White House visit, he made another public statement...
...Grover Cleveland Alexander, divorce-seeking wife of oldtime Pitcher Alexander of National League baseball (now with St. Louis), last week went fishing near Lincoln, Neb., fell in, was rescued and revived by Boy Scout Richard Paul...
...last Chicago's World Fair (1893) the first convention of women's music clubs was assembled through the efforts of Mrs. Theodore Thomas, wife of the conductor. Four years later, inspired by this start, six women met in New York City, laid the foundation of the now national Federation of Music Clubs. In Boston last week this Federation held its 16th biennial convention with 3,000 delegates representing clubs in every State and also Alaska, Hawaii. Programs featured all branches of musical activity, every musical phase of civic, social, home, school, church life. Practical assistance...