Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Report from the World" is a notable milestone of the Cleveland Council as a community influence. Per man, woman & child, the nation's sixth city has become its most international-minded. Cleveland's Council now has almost 4,000 members, of whom half are men. The year-round program of the Council includes speakers who are a small "Who's Who" of U.S. and foreign authorities. Council topics are then carried by the members into dozens of neighborhood and other small group forums. In 450 of these meetings last year foreign affairs played to audiences totaling more...
When Bessie Smith was singing Young Woman's Blues and Empty Bed Blues in Chicago in the 1920s, Julia Lee was singing the same kind of songs with the late Benny Moten's band in Kansas City. Count Basie played the piano. During the depression Julia went to work at $12 a week in Milton's Taproom. In the rowdy days of the Pendergast era, Julia sang ribald ditties like Two Old Maids in a Folding Bed and The Fuller Brush Man. But Kansas City is cleaner now, and so are Julia's lyrics...
...that "women were ready for more significant fiction than Gene Stratton Porter and articles more serious than the featherweight stuff they were getting." He even suggested to the board that McCall's sell Burton's stockpile of popular fiction to their bigger rivals, Ladies Home Journal and Woman's Home Companion. He wanted to start from scratch with new, "realistic" writers. For such heresies he was fired at least six times during the first year (he quit nearly as often), was always rehired after a few days or weeks because, he says, "there was no one else...
...wonder-boy reputation and self-assurance, McCall's editor is a quiet, hard worker. He has a wife and four children, almost never consults his wife on the "woman's angle." He is certain that women need men to edit their magazines. Says he: "A woman has the courage to think for herself but not for other women. It takes a man to do that...
...great-grandmother pounded rusks in it," a woman says of a kitchen mortar, "it's something sacred to me. How can I leave it behind?" A soldier is asked: "What are you fighting for?" and replies: "So that after the war I can have a house of my own, a family-kids ... a pretty house, with shrubs and flowers...