Word: womens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's Hector McNeil was quick to back up Santa Cruz. The Russian ban, cried McNeil, "cuts across the almost instinctive disposition of ordinary men & women to make allowances for [those] who consider themselves in love...
Black-Market Babies. The Soviet answer staggered even U.N.'s hardened connoisseurs of Russian logic. The Russians, rasped Ukrainian Delegate Vasili A. Tarasenko, were holding the women for their own protection. Only in the Soviet Union were women assured of fair treatment. Look at the U.S., he cried, some U.S. women are so poor that they have to sell their children. Triumphantly he cited some news clippings that told of a black market in adopted babies...
Enter, Blondie. The coming of democracy has had its greatest impact on Japanese women. Before the war they were virtually without legal rights. Now they vote, own property, attend square dances, go to coeducational schools and eagerly discuss the advantages of love matches over the ancient Japanese custom of marriage arranged by parents. They may smoke if they like. Emancipation has not been confined to the young. A middle aged matron in a Fukuoka leather-goods store explained: "Before the war when my husband and I went out I walked behind. Now we walk side by side...
...whistle shrilled the abandon-ship alarm. Nightgowned women and screaming children rushed to the decks. The crew quickly got all passengers into the lifeboats, dropped the boats halfway over the side. There the passengers huddled for three hours, until rescue ships came alongside. Sunrise revealed that the Magdalena had been sailing a good five miles out of the steamer lane, a bare two miles off the rock-strewn shore...
When Christian Bérard died last February at 46, Paris lost its most fashionable artist. A scraggle-bearded, sack-bodied man who wore his jackets soiled and kept up his trousers with string, he rated in Paris as a top arbiter of good taste in women's fashions...