Word: woodwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their stronghold was Texas and their Joan of Arc was a Dallas housewife named Mrs. Bobbie Woodward. Mrs. Woodward, 24, and mother of two, was no Ingrid Bergman. But she had a nice pair of legs and a stubborn spirit. She saw no reason why she should hide her legs under long skirts, why her draftsman husband should be put to the expense of buying her a new wardrobe, or why the women of Texas should be pushed around by a bunch of Paris and New York designers...
...Save Eyesfrain." A month ago, Mrs. Woodward founded the Little Below the Knee Club and sent out a call to battle. The response was tremendous. By last week, the club had members in all the 48 states, in Canada and Alaska. In Dallas alone, 1,300 women signed up. San Antonio L.B.K.s issued a war cry: "The Alamo fell, but our hemlines will...
...Founder Woodward was caught up in a whirl of interviews, picture-taking, mail-opening. In the midst of it, she led an L.B.K. parade down Main Street that tied up Dallas midtown traffic for an hour and a half. Paraders carried signs saying: "Short Skirts. Save Dollars. Save Eye-strain." Short-skirted girls chased long-skirted girls with brooms. Finally, the L.B.K.s charged up to the doors of the famed Neiman-Marcus department store. Shaking brooms and fists, they cried: "Down with the long! Up with the short...
...spent the afternoon and one more day in Virginia, enjoying the holiday from Washington's steamy heat, strolling over the wooded, 210-acre estate of Stanley Woodward, State Department protocol chief, going to a cocktail party given for the press by Admiral William F. Halsey. Then, at the wheel of an open convertible, he drove back to Washington at a steady 50-mile clip (several times hitting 65 on the straightaway). At Memorial Bridge a Secret Serviceman took over and Harry Truman rode soberly on to the White House, to pick up his cudgels...
...been observed that anti-biotics (such as penicillin), produced by soil bacterial have molecular structures like proteins, although the overall size is considerably smaller. With Woodward's general method, many of these so-called antibiotics have been tured out, but their effectiveness is at yet untested...