Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grasped rifle, shotgun, pistol, it rode on horses by night and it took Negro Shepherd away from the State of Mississippi and dealt with him after its own fashion. In Mississippi, Blacks outnumber Whites by almost nine to eight. Where there are nine Black Men to eight White Women, the People is apt to find excuse for making an occasional example. Meanwhile the State of Mississippi took no proceedings against its People. Governor Bilbo said he had neither time nor money to investigate 2,000 persons. A coroner's jury, looking into the death of Negro Shepherd, decided that...
...Lansing, Mich., courtroom last week Judge Charles B. Collingwood was sentencing Mrs. Etta Mae Miller. It had taken a jury of eight men and four women only 13 minutes to find her guilty. She was charged with having sold two pints of liquor. She was charged also with being a "habitual criminal," inasmuch as this last offense was her fourth. So to her said Judge Collingwood: "It is the sentence of this court that from and after this day you shall be confined in the Detroit House of Correction for the remainder of your life." In the same court...
Died. Dr. David Bancroft ("Debe") Johnson, 73, founder (1886) & president of Winthrop College for Women at Rock Hill, S. C., onetime President of the National Educational Association; of colitis; in Rock Hill...
...such stuff are the women made that fall under Guedalla's category of "real." Three more are, maliciously, "ideal"-the wives of Swinburne, de Goncourt, and Henry James (he, of course, runs away from his on the first day of the honeymoon). But the "real" outclass the "ideal" in artistic creation, and prove "the skittish muse of intimate biography," Clio's charming handmaiden...
Back Seat Drivers is a farce in which two women try to manage their husbands' finances. They get involved in crockery and their husbands have to catch thieves. Spots of this are funny, in a modest...