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Word: womening (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...advanced straight upon Chefoo. Seemingly Marshal Chang had left the siege to be maintained by subordinates. When they informed him via field telegraph of their rout, he instantly demanded two millions more from the terrified merchants of Chefoo, threatened to burn down their warehouses, kidnap their women, tear out their beards and worse-if they did not pay. When he had collected all he could, the "Sweetest Sugar Daddy in the World" sailed from Chefoo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Despair in Dairen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...Imperial Japanese Government, hitherto friendly to Daddy Chang, announced at this juncture that he would not be allowed to re-enter Dairen. When this news reached the hugeous mansion, Miss Anabelle ("Trixie") Cronan succumbed to hysterics. Chang's 34 other women-mostly Orientals-had all the blinds of the house drawn, waited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Despair in Dairen | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Packing a dingy theatre by putting up the sign FOR MEN ONLY or FOR WOMEN ONLY is an old trick. Last week a new change was rung when the Mayor of Santiago signed a decree authorizing the expenditure of public money to build a theatre FOR CHILDREN ONLY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pure for Children | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Disarmed, Marion has accepted him, and he is pleased. He writes: "Yesterday I drove my car down a street of our town I had never been on before. I did not know the street was there. Men hailed me. Women and children were sitting on doorsteps. 'It is our editor.' 'Well, you have been a long time getting down here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hobo Gone Babbitt | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...When I drive on a country road in this county farmers or their wives call to me: 'Come in and get some cider, a basket of grapes, some sweet corn for dinner.' The women of the town and county keep the print shop fragrant with flowers. I have a place in this community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hobo Gone Babbitt | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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