Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...which many a Democratic Congressman heedlessly pledged himself. Tennessee's Democratic Cordell Hull of the Ways & Means Committee alone had raised a John-The-Baptist cry against Republican tariff plans. Hardly a Democratic Congressman but had some pampered local industry he would like to see "protected," ranging from women's shoes in Brooklyn to cane sugar in Louisiana...
Flappers & Socialists. The newspaper of world's largest circulation, London's Daily Mail, and other organs of the Rothermere Press flatly predicted, last week, that Britain's newly enfranchised ''flappers" (women from 21 to 30) will prevent the return of the Conservatives with their present independent majority. Pontificating in the Daily Mail, Lord Rothermere declared: "The only sure way of keeping out the Socialists (Laborites) is in the union of the two anti-Socialist parties under David Lloyd George and Stanley Baldwin, and this combination of Liberals and Conservatives would have our heartiest support...
...that letter may be interested to know that Radcliffe has been for some endeavoring to raise money to erect an art museum of its own with a library. This will, however, take a little time, for money does not gravitate so frequently nor in such large amounts to women's colleges as to those...
...Three women went to the tomb on the first Easter Sunday. They were Mary Magdalene, Mary, sister of the Virgin and mother of the cousins of Christ. James and Joses, and Salome.* When they arrived the tomb was open. Mary, mother of James, saw an angel and Mary Magdalene saw two angels and saw and heard her Lord. The last miracle had not failed. The Pharisees soon heard the news they had feared: Christos kai apethane kai anesteh-Christ both died and rose...
...Foch (see p. 26). At the first Battle of the Marne, General Sarrail recaptured Verdun and the Meuse heights. A radical-socialist, his military career was much affected by political disfavor. In Syria (1925), dynamic as ever, he suddenly shelled rebellious sections of Damascus, reputedly killing 500 persons, including women and children, arousing worldwide protest. At his deathbed was famed Lieutenant Colonel Albert Dreyfus, victimized hero of "the Dreyfus case...