Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: . . Can TIME truthfully say it represents the opinion of all its readers with true impartiality as nearly as does John Rankin when he rises to make Congressional halls ring with old-fashioned Southern oratory, advocating States Rights, the poll tax, white supremacy and regard for Southern-nay, all -womanhood...
...clock and all civilian and V-12 students are invited. The usual non-alcoholic beverages will be served but far more important is the chance that here at last, after almost two weeks of utter stagnation, is your chance to gaze upon the flower of American womanhood and perhaps form the acquaintance of a life time...
Everybody knew where Rankin stood, which was four-square against a federal ballot for soldiers, eight-square against the Administration, and, of course, 16-square in favor of the poll-tax, white supremacy, and Southern womanhood. John Rankin, master old-fashioned orator, counted on his corn to hold the House's attention. He was not wrong...
Beauty and the Box Office. Through Cinemactress Garson, Hollywood had stumbled upon, and reawakened in millions of people, a recognition of the dignity and beauty of mature womanhood. It had also stumbled upon one of the richest box-office formulas and one of the greatest potential box-office figures in its 50 years of prospecting. Not knowing at first what a radioactive element it had in hand, Hollywood kept right on stumbling and immediately miscast Miss Garson. Of her next film, Remember, she says simply: "Let's not." Pride and Prejudice was a harmless excursion into literature...
...Peter Marshall, Presbyterian, said Esquire's jokes, articles and cartoons create "the impression that virginity . . . is a thing to be joked about," and added: "I believe that womanhood has definitely been lowered by the achievement of equality with...