Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fine Woman...
...fine woman-a great lady...
...Florence Rena Sabin, 67. In 1893, plain, blonde Florence Sabin graduated from Smith College. After a short period of teaching zoology, she bravely entered Johns Hopkins Medical School, thus starting a long career of firsts: first woman to graduate from the Hopkins, first woman to teach there, first woman member of the Rockefeller Institute, first (and only) woman member of the National Academy of Sciences. She is famed for her discovery of the origin and processes of the lymphatic system, her account of the development of blood cells, her studies of the blood in tuberculosis, her testing of chemical substances...
Sued for Divorce. Archie Pitt, London theatrical manager; by Gracie Fields (real name: Grace Stansfield), 41, world's highest paid show-woman (earnings: about $750,000 a year), who for over 20 years has been convulsing British audiences with her Lancashire-isms and gracelessness; in London. After a visit to Hollywood in 1937, Gracie remarked: "I like me own country better...
...Dickens' day is more stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London build the city of the free...