Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their struggle to survive under Soviet conditions that, according to the baffled Communists, many holy men now preach in Russia in the following vein, which was quoted by comrades as a typical example: "Jesus was of proletarian origin, the son of Joseph the carpenter and of a toiling woman. It is necessary to explain that Jesus Christ was the great Socialist and Communist predecessor of the Communist Party...
Indirectly another even richer woman sculptor was important in last week's art news. Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, resting from her own labors since her exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries eight months ago, opened the Third Biennial Exhibition of U. S. artists at the Whitney Museum of American...
...homicidal mania leaps up at the time of the full moon. Working in the dark, he takes off his glasses, puts on gloves, chokes the victim to death, cuts her up with artistic pride, removes her eyes. He is exposed at last by an heroic and implausibly clever woman who turns an electric torch into his unprotected eyes while he is preparing for his favorite pastime...
Awarded. To Dean Virginia C. Gildersleeve of Barnard College; the American Woman's Association's 1936 Award for Eminent Achievement; in Manhattan...
While Chicago music lovers were squirming last winter under the worst Chicago operas they had ever heard. Conductor Ebba Sundstrom was swooping her Woman's Symphony Orchestra through its tenth, most gratifying season (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Long before her last concert it became clear that the Opera's loss was the Symphony's gain, that the woman's orchestra might look for more subscriptions, bigger patrons this autumn. Flushed with success, many patrons felt that a more dynamic, impressive conductor than Ebba Sundstrom should be billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe...