Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Re: "Putting England Right." Tell Mr. Sydney Walton to improve the English weather, thin out London traffic, make it easier to get on a good golf course, turn out some good-looking women in the shops, streets and society, install decimal currency, teach taxi-drivers to talk so I can understand them, have the newspapers print something about America- especially business news-get some shows and nightclubs running that can compare with Broadway (and stop that annoying "club" system that makes it so hard to have a good time except in roughneck night places). When these things are attended...
...Women of the U. S. who like to put a drop of Coty perfume behind their ears were all approval, last week, when gallant Perfumer-Publisher Francois Coty founded a new newspaper, The Evening Friend-of-the-People (L'Ami du Peuple du Soir), and took up editorial cudgels in defense of the U. S. cinema industry, which sorely needs a champion in France...
...Pasty or crudely red faces, bulging shiny foreheads . . . rolling chins, fat wrists . . . [these] women are one of the greatest comments on feminine emancipation ever made." Thus, recently, did a presumably emancipated Londoner write to the London Express describing the subjects of portraits by famed Dutch artists, portraits which had appeared in the Royal Academy's great exhibition of Dutch art (TIME...
...home, in Russia, Ireland, Turkey, Palestine. Notoriously hostile to the Bolshevik regime, he castigates the man whose body is "still preserved in pickle for the curiosity of the Moscow public and for the consolation of the faithful." - Lenin. "In the cutting off of the lives of men and women no Asiatic conqueror, not Tamerlane, not Jenghiz Khan, can match his fame. . . . His purpose, to save the world: his method, to blow it up. . . . Apt at once to kill or to learn: . . . ruffianism and philanthropy: but a good husband; a gentle guest; happy, his biographers assure us, to wash...
...foremost German psychologists, Dr. Kurt Koffka, will lecture on "Machines, Life, and `Gestait' " on Wednesday evening at Jacob Sleeper Hall, Boston, under the auspices of the American Association of University Women...