Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present. The perpetrator was not discovered...
...filthy dressings are still unattended. Several hospital ships serve the more seriously wounded and a few of the sick have been transferred to the interior. The refugees have become a danger to the general health of adjacent communities. Families are still separated and rare is the man or woman who is not ceaselessly looking for kin. On one day a local French newspaper published gratis ten columns of refugee "personals." Typical insert: "José Manuel Garcia begs for news of his wife Lena, last heard of on 1st February at Puigcerdá." Marseille gangsters, always in need of women...
Today he teaches 1,500-odd students from 46 States and six foreign countries not only how to ride a horse but how to make up their faces, talk, dress, take dictation, be smart consumers. Because one of woman's most important activities is getting on with men, Stephens sees that its girls meet boys at frequent intervals...
...luncheon where the girls badgered celebrities, Stephens' tall, brown-haired Kay Leftwich was picked by a professional models' agent as "most beautiful American schoolgirl." Third day, having lost only three overcoats a day, reported only one case of illness (cause: overeating) and absorbed considerable informal education on woman's 7,400 problems, the girls embarked in two ships for Florida. There they dated the University of Florida...
...considered scandalous in many places for a man to help in the delivery of a child. If skilled "man-midwives" were employed, they often had to cover their patients with "modesty cloths" before setting to work. In 1522, Dr. Wertt of Hamburg, Germany, dressed himself as a woman, went to a confinement. When found out he was burned to death...