Word: womening
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, D. C, is the Congressional Club, composed of women of the Congressional set. Wives of Congressmen have always been ipso facto eligible for membership, have even been urged to join when they showed lack of initiative. But last week, Mrs. Albert H. Vestal, wife of the Indiana Representative, offered an amendment to the club's constitution which, if passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the candidate must...
Precious. Complete and unassumed inanity is often the means whereby pretty women entice money out of old and stupid men. On this despondent theme, James Forbes (The Famous Mrs. Fair, The Show Shop) constructed this sometimes witty but usually laggard little farce, which was mistakenly provided by Rosalie Stewart, perhaps the most astute among Manhattan's female producers. "Precious" is the name of a girl, in some respects resembling the popular conception of Peaches Browning, who marries and mines a rich elderly man. At length, he grows tired of being the goat and palms "Precious" off on a young...
...must not be thought, from these few examples, that the people who are sending and bringing these medicines and suggestions to the Palace are slightly unbalanced. Anything but. They are men and women who take the King's illness as a personal affliction and they honestly feel that their quack medicines and prescriptions are not only an expression of their loyalty but that they are the only things which can save the King. The arrival a few days ago of a special serum from the United States which was rushed to the Palace and given much publicity in the newspapers...
...schedule follows: February 15--The Harvard Union February 16--The Harvard Club of Portland February 17--Exeter Academy February 23--The Harvard Club of New York March 6--The Harvard Club of Boston March 7--The Women's City Club at Ford Hall March 15--The Milton Club April 5--The Harvard Club of New Bedford
There was an evening in Paris in the '70s when the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, went backstage at the Varietes. He was led through a gloomy cavern of stained canvas, ropes, flaring lamps. The air was pungent, draughty, filled with the cloying scent of women doused with violent perfumes. The blond prince entered the dressing room of the leading lady, a famed courtesan. She greeted him with coy, voluptuous respect, in tantalizing deshabille. The little dressing room was filled with starchy gentlemen, shouting amid the gay popping of corks. To one side stood a myopic, corpulent, bearded figure...