Word: julia
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last week burst into rejoicing. The news was out that 13 states had refused to ratify. Since three-quarters of the states must ratify (that is, 36) if the amendment is to be adopted, the opponents cheered that the amendment was defeated. The proponents took a different stand. Miss Julia Lathrop, Vice President of the National League of Women Voters, typified their stand when she exclaimed: "We have not lost the fight. . . . A State once ratifying ratifies for all time, but a State refusing to ratify may at any time reconsider...
...lordship paid a sudden visit to Manhattan. At the Julia Richman High School, girls cheered him; at the Museum of Natural History, where he saw dodos and dinosaurs, the officials and guides recognized him. Leaving the Times Annex, chorus girls cheered him from the windows of their dressing room in the Apollo Theatre. On his way to the Herald-Tribune offices he was pointed out by the inimitable Will Rogers to a bevy of Ziegfeld Follies beauties who immediately broke into raucous cheers...
GREEN THURSDAY?Julia Peterkin? Knopf ($2.50). Author Peterkin is a lady of quality who lives on a great and isolated plantation in South Carolina. The people who serve her, the people who are her neighbors, the people she watches over, are black. In this book she writes about them. No wild crapshooters are they, no barrelhouse kings, cakewalk princes, or skull-faced witch-men. They are Negroes who pick cotton, plough fields, raise pickaninnies...
...summing up all "sides" of the industrial struggle in a fruitless attempt to be impartial. They have had the opportunity of listening during the past two years to such speakers as James A, Emery, counsel for the National Association of Manufacturers Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor, Julia O'Connor of the telephone workers of Boston, Robert Amory, president of the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers; John L. Barry, president of the New Hampshire Federation of Labor; J. Eads Howe, and many other leaders in industrial struggles. In the compulsory course for freshmen the students are plunged into...
...Maestro Pietro Mascagni, the "one-opera-man" (TIME, July 28), now in Vienna, the Opera Comique has ordered a lyric drama based on the successful Plus Que Reine, by Henri Caën. Under the title More Than Queen, it was produced in the U. S. in 1899, with Julia Arthur playing the regal part. It is a dramatization of the career of the unfortunate Empress Josephine, willowy victim of Europe's "man of destiny." Mascagni has already set himself to work transcribing her sighs into pathetic whisperings of violins and flutes...