Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...grey, women of the sixties . . . you gave the South a song, a sentiment, a story that will live forever. ..." "Jefferson Davis loved the Union with all the devotion of his heart. . . ." "Slavery was not the cause of the war. ..." "Our victory was essentially a victory: of the spirit. . . ." Such were a few of the many words that' fell upon the ears of 4,000 tottering Confederate veterans, their wives and progeny gathered last week in Charlotte, N. C., for their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters...
This year, as in previous summers, about half the students will be women. They will be quartered in Standish, Gore, and McKinlock halls, while the men will be accommodated in the Smith Halls quadrangle. Numerous other facilities will be thrown open to the Summer School group. The tennis courts of Soldiers Field and the Weld Boat Club are available, while many entertainments and excursions are planned for the benefit of the students, with Yard concerts, special evening lectures, and visits to important points of interest in and around Boston...
Once when Gilbert Stroud, aged 7, was fidgeting with a spoon and fork at table, his stepmother, nerve-wracked from maternity trouble, slapped him with the carving-knife. That, says Author Mannin, was the genesis of 1) a scar on his wrist, 2) his animosity towards women. Aged 10, when his friend's mother embraced him he wriggled out of it. Aged 20, off at the War, when the Stroud blood in him got hot for women, his mind remained cold as cash. Aged 25, he discovered that he wanted a fortune and a blonde wife, a maker...
...think you could do a lot more for girls and women by paying them better wages than you can by subscribing money to rescue them after they have gotten into trouble." So, in 1926, wrote Senator James Couzens of Michigan when asked (by Mr. Kresge) to contribute $1,000 to a home for girls.* Accustomed, however, is Mr. Kresge to reflections upon his philanthropy. His gift of $500,000 to the Anti-Saloon League in 1927 was followed by a statement from the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment that Kresge stores were selling homebrew outfits, cocktail shakers and other accessories...
...scampering Henri Cochet of France and Eileen Bennett of England (6-3, 6-2). Told that future English tournaments might prohibit her barelegged play, Miss Wills observed icily: "I did not discard stockings as a fad. I have done it to increase my speed." Her speed won the women's singles again. She trounced Eileen Bennett (6-2, 7-5) and Mme. Rene Mathieu, No. 1 Frenchwoman...