Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indeed Subscriber Belger does not understand the meaning of the word "wench." Webster's New International Dictionary defines "wench": "A girl or maiden; young woman; damsel. A girl of the peasant class; also a female servant." Archaic is meaning No. 4: "A lewd woman; a strumpet...
Turning up unwashed and unshaved in Baltimore after being marooned in a Pittsburgh hotel, General Hugh S. Johnson told how he had lived for two days on beer and seltzer water, how one woman guest had taken a bath in three cases of ginger ale. Said he: "It was the most complete paralysis of a large city since the San Francisco fire...
Births. Life's biologic processes went on, hastened by the stress & strain of disaster. In Milton, Pa. a baby was born in a high-school biology laboratory. In Kingstown, Pa. a woman gave birth in a street car. In Wilkes-Barre two were delivered in rescuing Army trucks. In Brunswick, Me., as his wife and newborn son were rowed safely from their flooded home, grateful Emilien Racine named the child Moses. In Johnstown 653 people took refuge in a hilltop dance hall. Soon there were...
...true, I hear, that our knowledge is not increased by such deductions for I must already know that Hypatia is a mortal woman before I can intuit the first proposition: "All women are mortal." But, ye faithless ones, must mere logic displace the happy truth that all genius lives forever in the sentiments and ideas it inspires? And was not Hypatia a genius? Was she not beautiful? And modest? And intelligent? And was she not done to death in oyster shells? Holy fishes, is this not enough for immortality? Bless my soul, I should like to teach those girls...
...thank Miss Onderdonk for letting me visit but did not tell her my thoughts nor did I give her the orange I brought for it seems she be so matter of fact and so clear-headed I was scaird. Yet, 'twas a pity for I thought a woman philosopher would be also a poet; and then again the orange was very good...