Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...east of the dun-colored house provided for the University of Chicago's president (in the barn of which Mrs. Hutchins will sculp and not keep an automobile), facing the broad Midway across the street from John D. Rockefeller's $1,500,000 chapel, stands Ida Noyes Hall, the women's centre, given by the late La Verne Noyes ("Dealer in People," inventor of the aeromotor) in memory of his wife. Here the induction procession formed, young President Hutchins preceded by the trustees and by five-score other college presidents, including his father, and by the faculty. (In store...
Said he: "We ask from you courage and wisdom, united with enthusiasm for scholarship. We ask for zeal in the search for truth. . . . We ask for inspiration of our young men and young women. . . . for broad sympathy, high perspective on the values of human life, and helpfulness in the problems of our civilization...
...nose a haughty condescending sound-something halfway between 'I am very pleased' and 'Please be seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...
Only three years ago, U. S. tobacco advertisers felt that, though every one knew women were smoking, to allow a woman in the unholy precincts of a cigaret advertisement would be to affront U. S. womanhood. But tobacco competition grew hot. One by one the cigaret-makers began introducing women in their advertisements. At first it was just a woman's arm and hand holding a cigaret (Marlboro). Then it was women present, though not smoking, at smoking bouts. When a Chesterfield advertisement appeared in which an entrancing female was made to say, "Blow some my way," it seemed...
Last week 200 Christian women of Colorado Springs decided that affronts to U. S. womanhood had gone too far. They sent a petition to the city council, saying...