Word: sisterhoods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thanks to Florence Birmingham, Cambridge will be saved from Communism. Salvation will come at the expense of our children's teeth of course, but this is a small price to pay. One can only hope that our power-mad President and that cookie pushing sisterhood in the State Department will look to Cambridge, and learn. Then perhaps, on some happier day, the Free World will give a vote of thanks to Cambridge, and Florence Birmingham...
Dressed in the grey habit of the Sisterhood of Martha and Mary, a charitable order she helped found in Athens several years ago, Princess Alice of Greece, mother of the Duke of Edinburgh and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, arrived in Manhattan for her third cross-country fund-raising tour. The $10,000 raised two years ago, she said, was used to buy a home for the order, which cares for the poor and the sick. "I am very hopeful this time that I can get enough money to enlarge our plant so that I will not have to come back...
...Society of Christ Our King have worn a habit patterned after that of the Carmelite nuns. On the order's farm at Danville, Va., this has led to practical difficulties, e.g., flowing sleeves get in the way when the sisters drive their Dodge truck. Last week the tiny sisterhood (nine members) had a brand-new habit. Its designer: Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie...
Most modern nurses start training for their careers at 18, but it was not always so: the mother of the nursing sisterhood thought 18 much too young. In a letter published for the first time in the current British Medical Journal, Florence Nightingale gave some advice on the question...
...Army a telegram offering 600,000 cans of beer absolutely free of charge. Not to be outdone, the Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co. offered several vatfuls of free beer, too. At that, Mrs. D. Leigh Colvin, president of the W.C.T.U., rose in Denver before the 76th convention of her sisterhood to launch a heated counterattack...