Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intrepid band of ladies, full of git & gumption, descended on Seneca Falls, N.Y., to declare a rebellion against "the repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman." These injuries, they said, had as their direct object the establishment of an "absolute tyranny" over woman...
...political force. Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach spoke them fair, pointed out that women now constitute 28% of the labor force (they are also 50.8% of the voting population). President Truman came, paid respectful tribute to the power of their purses,* had words of high praise for one woman: "Mrs. Roosevelt has made a wonderful contribution to the nation [in her work with U.N.] since the President died." (He added, disarmmgly: "He is the only one I ever think of as President...
...ladies were pretty well satisfied. Gloated Vassar's Dean Mildred Thompson: "Men used to have a safe refuge ... in the corner saloon. . . . But now, when he seeks comfort at his favorite saloon, whom does he find with feet on the brass rail beside him? Woman...
...story, "Willie Ibid," which explores a veteran's mind and still remains objective and crisp. Lewis is at his best when characterizing the standard of American morality, seen in dirty side show of an amusement park. "A group of people filed out of the concession--...a man with a woman clinging to his arm and giggling covertly, and an old man grinning with an empty mouth, bubbles of saliva at the corner of his lips." But aside from the sheer lustiness of his description, Lewis is tremendously skillful in combining two parallel plots, one in the past...
...Theater audiences thrilled to Judith Anderson's portrayal of a woman who murders her own children to avenge her husband in the grisly tragedy...