Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bremen's stout Nazi crew went to work. As the fight spread, some of the women pulled out handcuffs, fastened themselves to the railing, screamed imprecations against Realmleader Hitler. Reported Editor Thomas Davin of Robert M. McBride & Co., publishers: "As we crossed over the deck, we saw a woman handcuffed to the rail. . . . The officer was striking her with what appeared to be a blackjack. ... As he hit her she ducked around. Then another fellow caught her. He held her head still with one hand over her mouth and the other at the base of her skull, while...
Both tragic and ludicrous were the cases outlined by the survey: Case 49,021: An investigator called on a woman in Henry Street, wanted to find out why her husband had been absent from his job for three days. "Absent-absent-these last three clays?" stammered the woman. "But-but-my husband died last year." Case 33: The worker was convicted of robbery last year, sentenced to from two to ten years in the Connecticut State Prison. Concluded the interviewer: "In-asmuch as this worker will be unable to work in the future, he should be separated from the payroll...
...memory of Father Burton's brother Caspar, who died of War wounds. With this and a cloister under construction, the whole will eventually cost $500,000. But to Boston the most interesting donor to the Cowley Fathers monastery was their late patron ess, a terrifying little woman who gave the $25,000 St. Francis House in which the Fathers have been living. She was Mrs. John Lowell ("Mrs. Jack") Gardner...
...taught her how to walk wings, make parachute jumps, hang by her teeth or swing from a trapeze on one plane to another in midair, they were married, went barnstorming as "The Flying Omlies." In 1927 Mrs. Omlie won her transport license, first ever granted to a U. S. woman. In 1929-30-31 she walked off with the chief feminine prizes at the National Air Races. Finally, in 1932, after a half-million miles in the air, two serious crackups, she quit active flying, took a desk job with the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in Washington...
UNCOMMON KNOWLEDGE-George W. Stimpson-Bobbs-Merrill ($2). An interesting compendium of little-known facts by a Washington newspaper correspondent who has gathered odd items of information all his life. It tells why a patrol wagon is called a Black Maria (there used to be a husky Negro woman bouncer in a Boston boarding house with that name); what U. S. President was a citizen of France (Washington); what is the lion's share (all). A handy book for people who like to win arguments...