Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unit of 2,000 who work at naval bases as cooks, bookkeepers, cipherers, but none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because many of them are Navy...
...Each woman was given gradually increasing amounts of vaccine every four days, from five to 29 times. At delivery, not one woman came down with puerperal fever...
...woman who had just heard him lecture asked the late, great Chicago educator, Francis Wayland Parker...
...goodness, woman," he cried, "don't stand here talking to me-hurry home-already you have lost the best five years...
...telegram to London's Daily Herald): "Wagner, Beethoven and all Huns were banned at the Promenades in August 1914. The result was no audiences. Henry Wood* then announced an all-Wagner program. Result: house crammed. Tell Harrison try Sibelius. Shaw." Clacked England's No. 1 woman composer, bony, cigar-smoking, fedora-hatted Dame Ethel Smythe: "I can hardly believe that Julius Harrison can be banning Wagner because of the Nazis. If art is to be affected by anything but itself, good-by to culture." Soon the tempest in a Tarnhelm reached the august portals of British Broadcasting Corp...