Word: womans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the music ended, after less than an hour, a woman stood in the congregation and said: "Thank you for bringing over your choir to us, Reverend Underwood. It was a real Christmas treat...
...member grand jury was made up mostly of business and professional men. It included one woman (a housewife), four residents of Westchester County, Sculptor Wheeler Williams, and Book-of-the-Month Club President Harry Scherman...
...this point, another woman Diet member, Miss Toshi Matsuo, wandered into view. Izumiyama, his eyes lighting on Miss Matsuo, straightened, smiled, politely offered to shake hands. "But instead of then freeing my hand," Miss Matsuo exclaimed, "he held it tight and pulled me." Miss Matsuo was saved by a bell summoning her and other Diet members, drunk or sober, to the night session, which convened at 8:47 p.m.* The Finance Minister, however, did not respond. He stretched out on a sofa in the corridor, and lay there, face up, eyes closed...
Then the opposition played its ace. Mrs. Yamashita stepped primly forward, announced to the house: "The Finance Minister has tried to make insulting advances to me . . . I regret that as a woman representative I must say such things from this rostrum . . ." Mrs. Yamashita's opposition colleagues roared, "Shame on the government," voted to discipline Izumiyama. By 2 a.m., Izumiyama was sober enough to shamble before a caucus of his party comrades and apologize. At dawn he resigned from the cabinet...
...Dress. In Sacramento, Municipal Court Clerk Mrs. Nola Lowery got a phone call from a woman who wanted advice on the appropriate thing to wear when she appeared to pay a traffic fine...