Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most seasoned gunners at 99 out of 100. The new No.1 lady skeeter of the U. S. is a 17-year-old Akron schoolgirl. Patricia Laursen. who has been shooting only two years but was good enough last week to break 96 out of 100. the best record any woman has registered at the national meet...
...Janeiro, a woman was arrested for trying to pass a counterfeit U. S. $5 bill. On the bill was written: "A phoney certificate-payable to any real sucker. If you redeem this certificate you are a magician...
Only event to prove much else was the Bendix transcontinental race-Los Angeles to Cleveland, then on to Bendix (N. J.) Airport. Pert, blonde Jacqueline Cochran, only woman entrant in the field of ten, flew in first and fastest to win $12,500 and demonstrate Designer Alexander de Seversky's 3,000-mile-range pursuit ship...
Twenty years ago, before the word "feminist" had begun to triten, Virginia Woolf considered that the proper study of mankind was sensitive, intelligent women with independent incomes. She kept to that belief till she had made herself the best-known woman novelist in England. Recently, however, world events have put even the sort of intelligent women she likes to write about in a dangerous spot; in Three Guineas she takes a stand on today's crop of social questions...
Lying round unanswered in Virginia Woolf's desk as the book opens are three letters requesting the gift of a sum of money. Being an intelligent woman who must make her own living, she can contribute only a guinea (about $5) to each. First guinea goes to rebuild a women's college, is accompanied by a long letter containing her views on education. If the college is to be rebuilt on the old lines, she says, her guinea might as well go for matches to burn it down. She would like it to be a "poor college," with...