Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cannot prophesy the immediate economic effect of this new war on our nation. But I do say that no American has the moral right to profiteer at the expense either of his fellow-citizens or of the men, women and children who are living and dying in the midst of war in Europe...
...Saratoga Springs, N. Y., a farmer of German descent, Charles Bollmeyer, argued hotly over the crisis with his wife (of Polish descent), finally shot her in the hips, chest, stomach with a shotgun. Throughout the U. S. men & women streamed to the Polish, German, British, French and Italian consulates, offering to enlist as reserves, volunteers, nurses. U. S. Poles quickly collected $1,000,000 for Warsaw. Everywhere consulates kept open doors all day except the British, which closed each afternoon at 3:30 p. m. for 4 o'clock tea. Thousands of aliens rushed to naturalization offices, seeking...
...from a flop is Esquire. With a circulation of even 350,000 it could be a financial success. Its stories are no longer hand-me-downs and its cartoons are often funny to anybody. Publishers like it because it has made the men's clothing industry advertising-conscious. Women like it because it has changed the clothing habits of the American male. Men's clothing advertisers like it because it is the U. S. male Vogue. Men like it because it is still the best smoking-room magazine in the land...
Truly international, the Army uses native-born recruits whenever possible. Another source of Army strength, which shocked the Victorians, is that women have absolute parity of privilege, position and dignity. Militant is the Army's terminology. A convert is a "prisoner of war," a service "company meeting," a Salvationist's death "promotion to Glory...
Good-looking, poker-faced Helen Wills Moody, eight times women's singles champion, having tried her hand at tennis (with some success), at art (with somewhat less), finally decided to try it at a detective story.* Her heroine: Betty Dwight, good-looking, poker-faced, five-times women's singles champion, who faces Mexican Challenger Marie Azarin, at Wimbledon, only to have Senorita Azarin drop dead on the court. Significance: in Mrs. Moody's hand the racket is mightier than...