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Word: womens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impulses, her statesmanship and her popularity become increasingly apparent, I wonder how many others may have had the same thought: Anna Eleanor Roosevelt for our next President. It would be an experience to have the country ruled from the distaff side of the house, in terms of women's impulses. And Anna Eleanor Roosevelt looks like the logical solution to the problem confronting the liberal Democrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 1, 1939 | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...common people were represented too. Three rooms and part of the main Chancellery Hall were piled high with presents. Peasants sent their native handiwork. Westphalian women knitted 6,000 pairs of socks for the Fiihrer's soldiers. Housewives got together to bake a six-foot cake. From the more militarily minded came pistols, hand grenades, an assortment of knives and daggers, a live eagle which the Führer will release in the Bavarian Mountains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Aggrandizer's Anniversary | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

...ranks of British diplomats is her Ambassador to the U. S. Since 1930, Britain's representative at Washington has been Sir Ronald Lindsay, a legate of long experience in Russia. Persia, France, Egypt, Turkey, Germany. His two marriages were with U. S. women: first to Martha Cameron, daughter of former Pennsylvania Senator J. Donald Cameron, who died in 1918, next to Elizabeth Sherman, daughter of the late Colgate Hoyt of New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: New Ambassador | 5/1/1939 | See Source »

Wellesley leads the co-ed picket line with six women in active service. On being questioned, one of the more attractive members of the female contingent charged that "the poor cabbles are ever-burdened with the transportation of Harvard drunks. Something must be done to improve the lot of these poor, set-chauffeuring individuals, and I feel it is up to us Wellesley girls to take the first step in remedying this unconstitutional situation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley, Rival, Support Strikers | 4/28/1939 | See Source »

...hesitated, a little taken aback. The place where he found himself was, to say the least, surrealistic. In front of him was the crude semblance of an early nineteenth century drawing room with men and women strewn about in various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair was wandering about among them, muttering to himself and glaring at the Vag. Yet when he looked behind him, the Vag knew indubitably that he was at the bottom of a swimming pool, sans water, and above him were tier upon tier of weird looking people, perched on diving boards...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 4/26/1939 | See Source »

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