Word: womenfolks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impossible, but he expected all of his children to be in the first ten in their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain her standing by memorizing what went on in class. Father did not permit his womenfolk to wear corsets, because he held that the body, as well as the mind, should remain uncramped...
When the Iroquois played lacrosse, it was quite a game. The Marquess of Queensberry would not have approved of it. The womenfolk, who were the rooters, ran up & down the sidelines with sticks, switching their men into action. The men tried to cripple as many opposing players as possible, and a game wasn't considered very spirited if there weren't a few broken skulls and fractured arms...
...reception at the race track to meet the natives, a garden party at the Governor's mansion, an inspection of the guard of honor. At Gingindhlovu next day there had been more receptions, at Eshowe a vast war dance of 5,000 screaming, booming Zulu warriors and their womenfolk, naked to the waist. When Elizabeth's younger sister Margaret started to smile at the Zulus, Elizabeth reproved her with a headshake. At Durban, on Thursday, there were more addresses of welcome, displays of homage, a civic ball, a garden party, and another memorial to be dedicated. Princess Elizabeth...
Last week Smith's beard was in bushy bloom. So, after three embarrassing months (during which one man was mistaken for an escaped convict), were the beards of many males in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. To go with them, womenfolk dragged out their grandmothers' dresses. With beards, bustles and a banquet, Poughkeepsie celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Smith Brothers...
...secret marriages is a more densely populated illicit area. In a single Dahlem block of 52 swank apartments occupied by U.S. officers, two-thirds of the tenants had German mistresses whom they supplied with coffee, cake and sandwiches from the Army mess-besides food received in packages from U.S. womenfolk...