MORE:LGBT activist says girls should change in nurse’s station if they don’t like boy in locker room The overturn vote angered many parents with one saying he’d now have to explain to his daughters that “there will be guys in the bathroom with them.” ...
There has been a trend among the bright young drinkers toward a glass of sherry before meals instead of cocktails, a bottle of wine during dinner, port with the cheese, a liqueur with the coffee — instead of one highball after another. …and when one’s personal hang-ups remained persona...
HistorianFrederickLewisAllen, who would go on to write the definitive history of the 1920s in his bestsellingOnly Yesterday(1931), offered some tongue-in-cheek advice on how the average American could contribute to renewed economic prosperity. An excerpt: HowardBrubakeralso finished the decade on ...
When Sonny and Cher said “I got you, babe,” they meant it forever (...minus the divorce part). Cher has claimed on multiple occasions that Sonny Bono has visited her from the afterlife, but she assured a fan during a Reddit AMA that it doesn’t scare her. Jenny Anderson, Getty Im...
“Patsy” dolls and doctor/nurse kits were also popular sellers in 1934… THEY’RE AFTER YOU…The much sought-after Patsy doll and the Patsy Nurse Outfit graced many a Christmas morning in 1934. (eBay) The article was followed by detailed listings of department stores and select toys. Here...
in American society. Clockwise, from top left, a 1914 postcard from Atlantic City; on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, circa 1905; sheet music for a popular 1905 song; a dour-looking group being pushed along the Atlantic City Boardwalk, circa 1905. (seesaw.typepad.com/bygonely.com/reddit.com)...
WELCOME TO THE WORLD…Nurse learning to care for infants, Philadelphia General Hospital, c. 1930; nurses caring for infants at Long Hospital, Indiana University, in the 1920s. Note row of cribs fastened to the wall, which seemed to be a standard design back then. (upenn.edu/comet.soic....
(Reddit) * * * Ode to the Road We now shift gears to E.B. White, who was poetically inspired by an advertisement in the Herald Tribune that featured Prince Alexis A. Droutzkoy (a member of the exiled White Russian colony in New York) praising the “magic silence” of the new “...
March 1936; a lone worker confronts his task in 1935; window washers in 1930; window washers on the 34th street side of the building, January 1932. There are 6,400 windows on the Empire State Building, and each worker averaged 76 panes per day. (retronaut.com/cnn/considerable.com/reddit...