Word: womens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fire, Fire! Catastrophe!" The clang of a muffled bell fang out through the night. Vag, wandering down Holyoke Street, stopped short in his tracks. Screams of women and shouts of men could be heard coming from the innermost recesses of the Big Tree Swimming Pool. A man of action, Vag sprang to the rescue, dashed down a side alley, and burst through a small door at the rear of the Big Tree. Acrid smoke filled his nostrils. But undaunted, he staggered on through a dark corridor shouting, "Everybody keep calm. Walk, don't run, to the nearest exit...
...Calculated on distance, allowing two putts a green, a hole that measures up to 250 yards is par 3; 251 to 445 yards, par 4; 446 to 600 yards, par 5; 601 and over, par 6. Women have their...
...than 200 Episcopal and Roman Catholic bishops, not more than a dozen or so banned Bingo as a means of raising money. He heard that priests in Trenton, N. J. defied police attempting to enforce the law against gambling, were backed up by a grand jury; that "bingo-mad" women in Detroit hissed, hooted, flew at raiding police; that in Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, legislators were urged to legalize games like Bingo...
Popular, petite debutante daughter of a wealthy Mississippi plantation owner, Anne Walter annoyed her mother by studying medicine in San Francisco and Philadelphia. Then she went to China as substitute head of the Women's Hospital in Soochow, a "city of unmentionable sights and indescribable smells." Her energy got her the nickname "Small Typhoon." Buddhist priests spread the rumor that she would gouge out patients' eyes and mix them with copper to make silver. The sick frequently preferred "the death road" by hanging themselves rather than try her medicine...
Visitors to the New York World's Fair last week: Mrs. Vincent Aston, chairman of the Fair's Advisory Committee on Women's Participation, returned from playing hooky in Egypt. Said she: "I am a week late, but I thought it would be silly to spend only a day or two in Paris. I have to report now and get my orders and I am ready to go to work." Donna Cora Caetani of Italy, one of Europe's best-dressed women, sporting a wool-like suit and sweater made of skim milk, brought 70 dresses...