Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." Said Herbert Hoover later in Denver: "Two days ago [Mr. Roosevelt] rededicated the Statue of Liberty in New York. She has been the Forgotten Woman...
...usual cut & dried evidence from employes of the swank Hotel de Paris at Bray on the Thames near Maidenhead was then mechanicaly recited by members of its staff. They said they had brought morning tea to Mr. Simpson and a woman who was not Mrs. Simpson but was with him in a double bed. There must be no provable collusion in an English divorce case and judges usually demand to hear in court the name of the "other woman" or corespondent. This had not been mentioned when Mrs. Simpson's lawyer asked the Court to grant the decree nisi...
...York Herald Tribune's Jack Beall emphasized her "spasms of coughing." The New York Times's, W. F. Leysmith cabled: "Frequently her tongue moved rapidly in nervous movements from cheek to cheek. She looked to one seeing her for the first time like a middle-aged woman of the upper classes. She has a wen on the right side of her chin. She told a most ordinary story...
...Jessups' lazy, loud mouthed hired man who embraces Corpoism early because he wants 1) to show his kindly employers that he is as good a man as they; 2) a gaudy uniform; 3) the glittering income promised by President Berzelius ("Buzz") Windrip to every man & woman in the U. S. In the novel, Jessup's daughter avenges her husband's murder by crashing her sport plane into Effingham Swan's transport plane. When the play's last curtain falls she is in a Corpo office on the Canadian border, leveling a pistol at Swan...
...were the newsworthy old faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled...