Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...does not need to be poor to have a heart!" cried Lady Astor. "Women who have money have just as much interest in child welfare as any other women...
...Significance. Flashing with occasional interludes of traditional Vikings at sea, these five novels chronicle mostly the Vikings on land with their women and priests, their passions and prickly consciences. Rich in detail of 14th century manners and morals, the books are in the best tradition of magnificent historical novel, but in their universality they reflect the sum of human drama...
...theatre time, and something more than 150,000 people were proceeding with various speeds in Mr. Whalen's general direction. But almost before they had time to discuss him (as most of them did) they found themselves seated before curtains, twitteringly awaiting visions of fair women or the croak of tragedy. This unprecedented condition-the theatres filling on time-was caused by Commissioner Whalen's having resolved "to solve the traffic problem...
When each of some 665,000-members of the National Women's Christian Temperance Union, General Federation of Women's Clubs, National Council of Jewish Women and Metropolitan Life Insurance policyholders-ripped open the envelopes of her mail last week, there slipped into her hand from one envelope a pamphlet which bore on its face the horrendous word cancer. "What Every Woman Should Do About Cancer" was the pamphlet's title. It was part of the American Society for the Control of Cancer's latest effort to reach 8,000,000 U. S. women...
...chief reason that the society is driving its information at women is that more women than men die of cancer, "on account of the part which women play in the reproduction of the race." Early recognition and prompt treatment of cancer is always of inestimable value, particularly in breast cancer. The burden of caring for the sick and aged falls chiefly upon women, and for this reason they should know that cancer is not contagious, and that many of the common beliefs regarding its cause and treatment are untrue. Because they are so often the guardians of the family...