Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...haven't we had some news as to when and by whom the challenges being flung out by the Tobacco Interests will be taken up? Camels started the game by suggestively placing pretty women in their ads, Chesterfields followed by having their lady beg to have some blown her way; and now Old Golds show their lady as actually smoking. But Lucky Strikes win the prize in this race for new customers, by making a direct appeal to the more youthful men and women with their "Reach for a Lucky...
Miss Hall has depicted sympathetically the mutual loneliness of two women; and told frankly how they appeased it in the classic fashion set by Ancient Grecian maidens on the historic Isle of Lesbos. This same theme was hymned by Sappho, universally esteemed by classicists as the greatest poetess who ever lived. To a London policeman or magistrate, however, the very words "Lesbianism" or "Sapphism" are unmentionable, vile...
...pointing their sad morals, the authors have found it unnecessary to call any women to their aid; there are none in the cast and Helen Westley, the charming war-horse of the Theatre Guild, is therefore not called upon to add Wings Over Europe to Major Barbara and Strange Interlude, her present assignments. The male actors are uniformly as good as Guild casts should be, acting the preposterous caricatures of the Cabinet members. Alexander Kirkland is Lightfoot, the worker of wonders...
...dandelions, listened to the birds, dreamed of the bridalhood soon to crown her betrothal to the boy Joseph. But one night a voice clove through her dreams like a sword edged with moonlight : "Hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee; blessed art thou among women...
...principal reason it can stand up among the world's greatest is the fact that it has had one conductor for ten years. The idea that an orchestra must have a guest conductor every so often is like a series of companionate marriages. About as soon as the women begin to get used to one man, they have to start all over again and learn someone else's faults. . . . An orchestra ought to be as sacred as a toothbrush...