Word: woman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Life of the Party. In Salisbury. Southern Rhodesia, Concord magazine discussed a woman who works in a mine, said: "Her unique experiences as processed by a lively wit make the lady miner-when she takes off her trousers and puts on her cosmetics-the most amusing evening companion south of the Sahara...
...lack of alcohol and night life in Zurich, only went as far as to say that it was "not against" women's voting. The liberal newspaper Neue Zürcher Zeitung gingerly suggested that chaos might not inevitably follow female suffrage since "the character of the Swiss woman does not point to extravagance...
...antisuffrage contingents argued as usual that "woman's place is in the-home," ignoring the fact that 46% of Swiss women go out to work, implied that the "mess" clearly visible in other democratic countries was "partly due" to women's suffrage. They did not get too excited, knowing that the male votes alone would decide the issue. Half an hour after the polls closed, the Swiss could dial 168 on their efficient "telephone system and learn that women's suffrage had been defeated by a two-to-one vote...
...hour debate seemed to indicate more reasons for shelving the bill than passing it, but when it came to a vote, Butler led his followers to an easy victory, 235 to 88. Soon a London woman may be able to stop and look in a shop window in the evening without an indignant prostitute hissing in her ear: "Get the hell off my beat!" On the other hand, she may have a policeman tap her on the shoulder and caution her against loitering...
...Valley Lodge on Thanksgiving Day, 1949, was a memorable fiasco. Cushing had to hire strikebreakers when his union workmen struck the week of the opening, hooked up plumbing himself. Justine hurriedly summoned the domestic couple from their New York home, pressed a friend into service as a chambermaid. One woman guest arrived early, found Cushing still at work on the plumbing. Snarled Alec: "Madam, come back in three hours, and we'll be ready. Meanwhile, don't bother me." That night everything went wrong. There was no dinner until 10. Only one toilet was working, and the waiting...