Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fifty women, representing 17 states, met in Chicago, formed the Woman's Organization for National Prohibition Reform. Mrs. Sabin, leading spirit, was chosen chairman. The purpose: to enlist five million women to fight Prohibition, to favor Temperance...
Often enough has one politician threatened to tattle on another's wet-dry habits. Never has an organization, especially of women, set out officially to expose such public officials...
Speaking for the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, characterized the W. O. N. P. R. with this sneer: "A little group of wine-drinking society women who are uncomfortable under Prohibition...
...Village of Sin (Amkino). People have learned to expect in any modern Russian film a cast of well-chosen actors and actresses with difficult names, acting competently and intelligently without makeup on their faces, so that they do not look like actors and actresses but like men and women. People have learned to expect photography so quietly beautiful or so imaginative that the best effects of Hollywood technicians seem artificial or flamboyant by comparison. They have also learned to expect doses of tedious propaganda extolling communism and episodes in which unnecessary impressionism takes the place of ordered storytelling. This picture...
Playwright Francis de Croisset, a familiar figure in the U. S.-haunted Ritz bar, tried an epigram: "For women an idea always has a face...