Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have been a cover-to-cover reader of TIME for over two years. From the very first I've felt that TIME and its aim-"to keep intelligent men and women well-informed"-must be the creation of a genius. If Briton Hadden was that genius, my sincere condolences upon his death...
...like women to meddle in the diplomatic affairs of the Holy See. Such matters are not their concern. The action of one woman, the widow of a man who had important documents, has done much harm already...
...angry at the shameless city women!" thundered the pastor. "His eye is offended by their short skirts, from beneath which peeps the wanton whiteness of their limbs. God is not mocked with impunity! He has sent this piercing cold to make the city women feel His wrath and lengthen their skirts. That is why your vines are blighted my friends! . . . Let us now join in prayer. God's will be done...
...peasants emerged from church, they espied four young women, all short-skirted, hiking through the village. Soon these hussies were set upon, pinioned, subjected to fierce applications of snow, and finally chased out of Buchau...
...Black Crook. It was on Sept. 12, 1866, that The Black Crook entered Niblo's Garden in New York. Buxom young ladies appeared in tights which revealed not only their ankles but their hips. In those days people believed with Queen Victoria in the theory that women had no understanding whatever. Next day James Gordon Bennett's New York Herald commended the city to the fire and brimstone of Sodom and Gomorrah. Sunday after Sunday pulpits boomed denunciation. Soon at Niblo's Garden there was only standing room...