Word: woman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Luck, Wis., day before the Midvale smash, a Soo Line train drove into a school bus at a grade crossing, killed the woman driver and three children, critically injured five others...
...able pianist as well as a violinist, Fritz Kreisler is also widely known for his compositions, chief among them a sheaf of ingratiating light violin pieces (Caprice Viennois, Tambourin Chinois, etc.) which are played by all of today's important fiddlers. In 1902 he married a U. S. woman, Harriet Lies, daughter of Tobacco Merchant George P. Lies. Violinist Kreisler has a belief that if one has practiced well in youth, the fingers should hold their suppleness in later years. Says Wife Harriet: "He would be a better violinist if he practiced more...
...emancipated in many fields-but not in religion. The first U. S. women's missionary body, founded in 1819 after a Methodist divine exclaimed, "The help of the pious females must not be spurned," was purely ancillary to a male board. When, in 1869, eight women formed the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, an independent body, churchmen tried to persuade them to let it be administered by men, who knew about such things. But the women stuck to their purpose, which was "engaging and uniting the efforts of the women of the Church in sending out and supporting...
...society sent to India one of the most famed missionaries of all time, Isabella Thoburn. For her it named Asia's first college for women-in Lucknow, India. It dispatched to the East the first U. S. woman doctor, Clara Swain. Today the Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, spending some $1,500,000 a year on 5,500 missionaries, Bible women and other workers in 17 lands, is the largest U. S. organization of its kind. Last week, not without some pangs and misgivings, it faced the prospect of losing its identity-in the impending merger...
Probably four boards will remain: Education, Home Missions, Foreign Missions, Christian Work for Women. The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society will have to join with one of the last two. Last fortnight its president of the past 17 years, soft-spoken Mrs. Evelyn Riley Nicholson of Mount Vernon, Iowa, voiced a plea not only for the members of her society but for Methodist women in general : "We implore that you not relegate our activities to a subsidiary position to men's work in such a way as to limit us." While Methodist committees last week explored ways & means...