Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...speech finished, Prime Minister Baldwin grinned ingratiatingly, winced again and descended from the platform. Listening to the speech with eyes closed, a sour expression on her face, was long-nosed Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith. Her moment came when the men were through speaking. The women of the audience crowded around her for a look, a possible smile, as they always do. She, as she always does, loved it, lingered long...
...Baldwin has given his slogan as 'Safety First.' That is not very thrilling to the spirit of youth. If he had said 'Live Dangerously' or 'Adventure Greatly' he might have caught the eye and heart of a younger generation. ... If he had promised husbands for surplus women, or a tax on bachelors ... or State-endowed 'talk-ies.' he might have aroused their interest...
...Belgian women have no votes, except in local elections, or if they are "war widows or sufferers...
When Mrs. Charles Augustus Lindbergh pores over her multitudinous wedding gifts in the next few weeks she will inevitably look long and often at one of the largest presents, an oil painting. She will see a quartet of dark, florescent women dressed in bouffant gowns, standing amid blossomy garlands. Handsomely, romantically they represent types of Mexican womanhood? Spanish, Indian, Mestiza (Spanish-Indian), modern Mexican...
...Mexican women are a favorite subject with Artist Martinez. He mingles much with them, in and out of his studio. Swarthy, melancholic, now in his 40's, he was longtime director of Mexico's Academy of Fine Arts. Mexico's artistic progressives, led by Diego Rivera (TIME, May 6) do not count Artist Martinez in their number...