Word: womens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thoroughly the smoking-for-women trend has swept the country is now demonstrated by the increasing number of big railroads which have felt themselves obliged to print "Smoking Permitted" on their menus. The exhalation of smoke from feminine lungs is becoming, in the aggregate, a mighty blast of fashion which railroad economists may not ignore. Railroads which have already trimmed their sails to catch this blast...
Trapshooting. North American (Vandalia, Ohio)?amateur clay target, Gus Payne of Oklahoma City; women's amateur clay target, Eunice Haggard of Winchester, Ky.; junior. Bob Hardy of Galesburg, Ill.; sub-junior, Albert Meiss of Hazleton, Pa.; professional clay target. Earl Donahue of Ottumwa. Iowa; amateur doubles, Sam Jenny of Highland, Ill.; professional doubles, Rush Razee of Denver; women's doubles, Mrs. J. C. Wright of Atlanta...
...must go to Camden, see the manicurist who inspects the fingernails of 4,000 workers, see the herds of living turtles weighing 200 or 300 Ibs. apiece brought up from the Caribbean to make a special brand of soup that retails for $2 a quart, see the 50 women who do what no machines can do (peel onions all day long), see the five soup tasters who together pass on every brew?the word of any one of whom is enough to damn a whole batch to destruction...
...from a young husband, hampered by modern working conditions such as feminine competition, young wife gets support too poor to permit much breeding. Reed remedy: "Upon the completion of an important piece of work for the state, men are paid for their service, and there is no reason why women should not receive comparable recognition [per bab]." Some other subjects treated: the Evolution of the Present Family Form, Those Who Have Not Married, the Hypertrophy of Family Bonds, Women as Prostitutes, Divorce as a Means of Family Dissolution...
From six points on the rim of the U. S., also from Canada, hurried flyers to the air races and show at Cleveland this week. Most conspicuous was the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica, Cal. After considerable squabbling (TIME, June 24), 19 women set out, including Marvel Crosson, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from...