Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...after chicken and ham and iced wine, we descried an ass coming up the steep ascent with a dusty figure of a man plodding beside the beast. "Those squaw men disgrace America in the Philippines," said the General. "Hundreds of 'em swinging 'round and living off native women. No American soldiers should be discharged until they have returned home." As we smoked and sipped, the pair drew nearer, and I recognized the man beneath his sweat and dirt. "It's no squaw man, General," I said. "It's Bishop Brent." The General said, "God almighty, what...
...Nights (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Bigger than the Sahara or than the sandy bottoms of all the oceans in the world is the desert of John Gilbert's new picture. It is the Great Film Desert across which, since the beginning of cinema, thirsty actors have tottered carrying beautiful women...
...ruling was occasioned by a dispute over the right of women members of the church to address the convention, to cast votes. Dr. John William Porter, editor of the American Baptist, stormily opposed gallant Dr. Truett. "We go right against the Scriptures!" he warned his undisputed brethren. "We break a precedent of 2,000 years!" Dr. Truett silenced his brother by quoting the Southern Baptist constitution...
...stories, Champion is most powerful, most brutal and ironic. A mean Irish boy cuffs and kicks his crippled brother for a 50? piece, knocks down his mother for interfering. He escapes Chicago, wallows from bad 'to worse with liquor and women. The trainer who picks him temporarily out of the gutter, and turns him into champion boxer, he ousts unrepaid. The girl he is forced to marry he deserts penniless. But in New York he is publicized the way the public likes its champions: "Just a kid; that's all he is; a regular...
...sell its ideas to any audience recruited from the immediate neighborhood. At least it will have an equal advantage with the affirmative, with a feminine speaker handling the rebuttal. This favor shown to hostesses shows a charming disregard of what experience has taught about the argumentative powers of women. The Harvard half, or fraction, of the impending debate has proved its searage, if nothing more, by putting itself in the place where there is a possibility, at least, of hearing the ladies protest too much...