Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last time Winnie Ruth Judd went to Los Angeles she traveled with two trunks and a valise-in them the dismembered bodies of two women friends. Last week she traveled light...
Every candidate was officially chosen for the ballot, and as there was no way of registering opposition except by crossing out all the names, results were gratifying. In Western Ukraine, 92.83% of the electorate took part, and 90.93% voted for the official panel of 1,484 men, 239 women; in White Russia 96.71%, voted, 90.67% in favor of 804 men, 123 women. One candidate had been in prison for 19 years...
...same token of international law which forbids bombing women, children and oldsters, Russia said it was wrong to deprive them of food, fuel, clothing. Russia therefore "declares that it does not agree" to the British contraband list and rules, does not recognize the control port inspection and seizure system, especially since Russian ships and cargoes are State property. "On the strength of the above," Russia reserved the right to claim compensation from Britain for losses incurred. No trace of alarm was shown in London over what one eminent legalist called Russia's "fantastic" position...
Bohrod is a naive realist whose paintings are mostly of common scenes around Chicago. In greens, reds, blues that are raw but seldom harsh, he paints sleazy streets of ramshackle houses, old women haggling at a fruit stand, batting practice in the Cubs' ball park (where he once sold score-cards), knobby bathers by Lake Michigan. Says he: "The shabbier parts of Chicago are what intrigue me." Less intrigued is Mrs. Frank Granger Logan ("Sanity in Art"), who stormed "It isn't worth a nickel," when a Bohrod picture of a filling station won top honors...
...subjects for this mural precise Alfred Shriver knew exactly whom he wanted: ten ladies whom he had known and admired from his youth up. Some of them: Mrs. Bruce Gotten, called by the Baltimore Sun "one of the most beautiful women that ever grew up in this city"; Mrs. J. Lee Tailor, who in middle age still had "the most exquisite coloring, with perfect Titian hair and eyes the color of violets"; Mrs. James Brown Potter, who did not marry until she was 38, when the Sun enthused: "The most beautiful violet grown in Richmond was named for her. . Possibly...