Search Details

Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Guest of honor at Boss Farley's big party was the shy and unassuming woman who has outlasted 13 Presidents of the U. S. -81-year-old Miss Mary W. Stewart, still postmistress of Oxford, Md., after 62 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Honored Guest | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...permission to stagger the curtain time of evening performances, thus avoid any blackout congestion. Managers are also seeking permission to give Sunday shows. In peacetime, Sunday shows would be howled down by Sabbatarian diehards, but England is least conservative when at war: During World War I she pushed through woman suffrage and daylight saving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The Show Must Go On | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Wood's Woman With Plants (see cut, p. 57) was picked by both Craven and Boswell. Because it confines itself by its title, Modern American Painting, in its color reproductions, gives a vivid and telescopic view of the changing U. S. from 1738 to 1939. Biographies of the 68 artists whose work is reproduced help make this book the most complete and authoritative record of the American School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Giotto to Grant Wood | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

Died. Eliza Stone, 97, one of the first woman telegraphers in the U. S., who stuck to her post during the Great Chicago Fire until driven out of her office by flames; of old age; in the Old Ladies Home at Oswego, N. Y., on the 68th anniversary of the fire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 23, 1939 | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

...Woman, to General Johnson: "Don't you think you could better defend democracy by upholding President Roosevelt, who was elected by the great majority of the American people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Chance to Heckle | 10/16/1939 | See Source »

Previous | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Next