Word: women
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jangled disturbingly. Over the wire came a warning voice: "You guys be ready for a hot story at 2 o'clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to find 35 very young men and women and one big Negro marching solemnly up and down under the leafless trees. Behind them flocked a curious crowd. With difficulty their youthful hands held aloft heavy placards...
GRANDMOTHER BROWN'S HUNDRED YEARS- Harriet Connor Brown-Little, Brown ($3). As it must to all men and women, as it did even to Methuselah, Death came last January to Grandmother Brown. She was 101 years, nine months old. One of her daughters-in-law wrote this book about her. It won the Atlantic Monthly $5,000 Biography Prize...
...GALLERY OF WOMEN-Theodore Dreiser-Liveright...
This is no rogues' gallery, though with another guide it might have seemed so. Here are the case histories of 15 women whom Author Theodore Dreiser has known, pondered over and laboriously written about. Conscientious and truthful according to his lights, Author Dreiser tries to give a complete report; in the oblique way in which such attempts often work out, he succeeds in showing himself as one of the most sympathetic of inquiring reporters...
Author Wiegler presents a portfolio of 21 thumbnail biographies: impressionistic studies of men and women of genius. Some are boudoir, some bedside scenes. Heloise and Abelard, separated for life, long for each other and finally share a grave; Byron, fair, fattish and 40, dies of fever at Missolonghi; Goethe walks through the night to one of his many assignations; Oscar Wilde, under his enforced pseudonym of Sebastian Melmoth, dies a pariah at the Hotel d'Alsace in Paris; George Sand and Alfred de Musset kiss and wrangle; Tolstoy, in his last illness, flees his troublesome wife and dies...