Word: frenchwomen
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...women: Caroline Davis, 38, of East Orange, N. J. and Ida Helen Oliver, 40, of Parnassus, Pa. The crime of which Misses Davis and Oliver were accused was that of copying the copyrighted designs of Parisian couturiers, bootlegging them to U. S. buyers and bargain-hunting Frenchwomen...
What actually constitutes "immodest fashion" the Twelve Orders leave to be construed by the local ordinaries of dioceses, as circumstances may require. Last week the new Archbishop of Paris vastly endeared himself to Frenchwomen by his construction. Short sleeves, low necks, short skirts (should they again come in) and the scanty bathing costumes still sanctioned by the French mode were apparently all covered by this statement from His Eminence...
...Last year 156 Frenchwomen killed their husbands and lovers. Crimes passionels are now committed not for unselfish love or love despised, but by mere assassins enraged by the poison of self love. Who then will have the courage in France to propose a similar law designed to save in one year 156 lives...