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Word: womening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...questioned concerning her opinion on the innovation to be tried in the Savoy Theatre of London, where all the seats are to be covered in colors to match the frocks of women patrons, and replied...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ruth Etting, Ziegfeld's Glorified Girl, Picks Songs for the Amount of Heart Throbs They Have--Has Much Fan Mail | 10/18/1929 | See Source »

...upon in modern societies as a violation, of taste and, public decency. There is obviously heavy drinking in connection with the Pudding running and there is reason to believe that this public display or drinking and its unfortunate results are sanctioned and even encouraged by those managing the initiations. Women students are regularly seen in the Yard and in the class room buildings. It is an affront to them and a slur upon Harvard that they are forced to run a gauntlet of drunken glances, bawdy ballads, and obscene recitations in order to attend their lectures...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PUBLIC INITIATIONS | 10/17/1929 | See Source »

Near Scandia, Kan., a church bulletin announced: "The women of this church have cast off clothing of all kinds. Look them over in the church basement any time this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...white man who strikes a black gets fined 25 francs; 2) native Africans practice true communism; 3) all Europe's old clothes and junk are sold to Africans; 4) the Negro is a football between African commerce and politics; 5) Senegalese World War veterans keep letters from French women addressed: "To my Mamadon! To my Sambo! To my dear black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Banana Engine | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...severely wounded, has lived in France. Burly, laconic as his prose, he is fond of bullfighting, fishing, winter sports. Once he entered the bull ring himself, emerged with several ribs broken. Besides his two novels he has written two books of short stones (In Our Time, Men Without Women'), a satiric novelette (The Torrents of Spring). He is by no means "litr'ry" in talk or thought, but his writer friends include Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald, Thornton Niven Wilder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man, Woman, War | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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