Word: woman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...months ago, a terrified young Negro woman, Mrs. Odessa Booker, found refuge in a farmhouse near Tampa, Fla., and told a story which is as old as the South. A 34-year-old white man named Irving F. Brown had called on her, asked her to come to his house as a baby sitter. Instead, he drove her to a lonely lane, beat and attempted to rape...
...Jonson was the best selling author last night as far as House Christmas plays were concerned. Eliot presented his "The Silent Woman" and Leverett "The Silent Woman" and Leverett "The Alchemist." Kirkland performed a modern revue containing a variety of skits...
...that Cambridge students have been playing for centuries. Before the night was through, reported the Vice Chancellor, "undergraduates, in disorderly mobs, often several hundred strong, surged about the streets intent upon doing damage ... In Petty Cury they overturned and seriously damaged a car, regardless of the presence of a woman inside . . . On King's Parade, they damaged [another] car, crumpling its bonnet...
These and other case histories of the victims of mental quacks are described by Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in the current issue of the Woman's Home Companion. Says Dr. Fishbein: "Our mental hospitals, penal institutions and, yes, our graveyards contain many occupants who would not be there if we only required sensible standards for psychological practitioners...
...Second Thought. In Akron, authorities at Peoples Hospital apologized, decided that, all things considered, they had better not charge a woman patient for the tonsillectomy which had been performed on her by mistake...