Word: womanhood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the middle of the speaker's dais, Harry Truman looked out happily over the main ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel, bright with autumn flowers and massed flags. The cream of Democratic womanhood was there-India Edwards, 54, boss of the party's women workers and a rising queenmaker, Nellie Tayloe Ross, who runs the U.S. Mint, Minnesota's Eugenie Anderson, new ambassador to Denmark-to celebrate another Democratic victory in "the making. Between the diamondback terrapin soup and the baked seafood canape, White House Press Secretary Charlie Ross approached the dais with a sheaf...
...Local womanhood now consists of very rich girls and very poor girls. Intermediate social levels occasionally appear on the Princeton campus, causing students to complain, "I can see they're there, but damned if I know where they come from...
...Times concluded the girls at Smith are going to college ". . . not to render their sex less feminine but to develop as fully as may be the powers of womanhood and furnish women with means of usefulness, happiness and honor...
...three others. She portrayed a fight announcer ("Tiger is fighting back! He throws a left - a right - another left. Now he's bringing a right uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam, the mother of Irium. As Pocahontas ("better-known by her Indian name, Alka-Seltzer"), Ethel Merman tomahawked a marauding redskin who was stalking Captain...
Madame Bovary (M-G-M), when the novel was first published in France in 1856, created a major scandal. Haled into court, Author Gustave Flaubert was charged with defaming French womanhood and corrupting the public morals. The Hollywood version, by framing the story within the court proceedings against Flaubert, has neatly combined fact with fiction to produce a fascinating close-up of provincial manners & morals in igth Century France. By the same device it deftly short-circuits the Johnston office, incorporating its apologia into its action...