Word: wronged
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...This defendant . . . knew the basic principles of law. She knew right from wrong. She cannot plead ignorance. There has been no appeal made for her because she is a woman...
...they got jobs to help out at home, learned to paint the luminous numerals on watch faces. Quinta, Albina, and Amelia Maggia thought themselves lucky to find work in the same plant. Amelia is dead-her body was exhumed to prove that the death diagnosis was wrong but her dead bones are still luminous with the radium she swallowed. Quinta and Albina left their jobs after two years for the romance of marriage, romance that has become tragedy. Mrs. Edna Hussman also left the company for marriage in 1922. Katherine Schaub and Grace Fryer found better positions in 1920. More...
...Lane Bryant, dressmaker, had a shrewd idea that appealed from its start to all women of ample figure. Says she: "It was my firm belief that fashion was slighting such women, was making smart dressing difficult for them. Merely supplying 'large sizes' of current styles was entirely wrong. What the woman of ample figure wanted, what I feel she must have, was a redesigning, a restyling of current fashions along slenderizing, beautifying lines. That was the simple idea that prompted me. . . . That is the idea which is today carried out in every garment we make...
...want the nomination unless the Republican party meets the farm issue fairly and squarely!. . . I have no hankering for the kind of fame that rests on an unsuccessful Presidential campaign!. . . Agriculture realized the moral and economical wrong of Slavery and joining with Business it created the Republican party. I feel that there is again a crisis and unless this partnership [Agriculture & Business] is maintained now, the candidate named at Kansas City will have a hard road to travel...
...futility of Jackson, as of Lee, lies in the fact that he was on the wrong side. Infinitely ambitious, a born leader of men, his destiny made him the puny obstacle to a movement greater than men--the economic revolution which doomed the South and exalted the North...