Word: womanfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mannish bluestocking Madame de Stael, trying to fascinate Napoleon (she had offered to be his mistress): "General, what woman do you like the best?" Napoleon: "The one I have...
Although the Jesuits, all men, teach thousands of women, no woman had ever before been named to such a high administrative post in a Jesuit college. But to Fordham's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon, Miss King's promotion was "logical," since Fordham has more than 3,000 women students, and in the social service school they outnumber men two to one. Founded in 1916, the School of Social Service is now a fulltime, professional graduate school to which only holders of bachelors' degrees are admitted for the two-year course. Its campus is the eighth...
...January 1906, Maria Montessori opened her first Casa del Bambini in Rome. Twelve years earlier she had been hooted and jeered there as the first woman ever to receive the University of Rome's M.D. In the 33 years since she began practicing her revolutionary theories of child education on the tough sons & daughters of tough tenement dwellers, she has seen those theories tried out in most parts of the civilized world, on the rich as well as the poor. Having spent most of her 70 years in expounding her methods to educators, last week Dottoressa Montessori published...
...grandparents fled Germany after the revolts against the tottering Metternich absolutism in 1848. When Wendell was born in 1892 his father, Herman Willkie, was a lawyer and a wealthy landowner in the town of Elwood, Ind. (pop. 10,685). His mother was also a lawyer, the first woman member of the Indiana bar, and besides tending her family (six children, of whom Wendell was the third) helped her husband in his law practice. Elwood was then riding high. Natural gas had been discovered and the supply was so plentiful that no one took the trouble to turn out the street...
...misled by French eloquence." Nor was he ever. In 1936, still immune, he nearly caused a diplomatic breach between England and France by contemning France's role in the London Locarno Conference. Excerpt: "The position of France is as usual that of a bad-tempered vixen of a woman who up to a point has discovered that merely by making herself unpleasant she can get poor male things to do anything she wants...