Word: womenfolks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firmest tenets in Harry Truman's personal code is that the private lives of his womenfolk should remain private. Accordingly, the President had an unhappy time of it last week when a rumor curled around Washington that daughter Margaret was about to become engaged...
From that time until some one hundred and twenty years later, when Will K. Jordan took over as president of Radcliffe, Fay House was dominated by its womenfolk. For three years in the 1830's the daughters of Daniel Davis made Castle Corners, as it was called, famous for its hospitality. Then in 1835, Judge Samuel Fay bought the place, and for the next fifty years his wife and then his daughter entertained the Cambridge intelligentsia there. On one occasion, it is reputed that Maria Fay had Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, and William James in her kitchen at the same...
...Strange Bedfellows tells what happens when the son (John Archer) of a Senator who is apoplectically opposed to votes for women marries a beautiful and unbudgeable suffragette (Joan Tetzel). The suffragette, finding all the men in her new family just as unbudging, makes converts, and then confederates, of the womenfolk. The wives, remembering Aristophanes' bawdy Lysistrata, stage a sex strike and bolt their doors. The husbands, remembering San Francisco's bordello-lined Barbary Coast, toss off some drinks and bolt the house. After an act of shenanigans, the two parties trade concessions...
Devoted Hope fans will be sickened, and all others put to sleep, after ten minutes of this witches' brew of poor vaudeville and worse dialogue. For the womenfolk, der Bingle fights his way gamely through two or three songs whose only distinction lies in the fact that they are all composed of the same four notes...
...capital feels let down, ignored, disregarded. It was the center of planning and procurement during the war. It is the continuous host of Congress, from which all appropriations flow. Yet, except for a few baubles given to the womenfolk of important officials when they smashed bottles on the sides of ships, and the occasional loan of an automobile and a 'C' card, Washington saw nothing of the saturnalia of wartime on which the Senate committee has lifted the curtain...