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INTERESTING. WORD ORIGINS. HISTORICAL RHYME

... affected or bombastic. There are even words specially coined to supply a deficiency. Charles Minds first used the word suffragette, and Darwin the phrase survival of the fittest. - Other inetaiices which spring to the mind are Mr. Winston Churchill's ...

Published: Friday 25 December 1925
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 892 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

INTERESTING WORD ORIGINS

... affected or bombastic. There are even words specially coined to supply a deficiency. Charles Hands first used the word suffragette, and Darwin the phrase survival of the fittest. Other instances which spring to the - mind arc Mr. Winston Churchill's ...

Published: Friday 16 April 1926
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 453 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

PORHADOWM, FRIDAY, NOT. 4

... plenty of opportunity for variety of scene and costume, from the ladies and gentlemen of fashion at Bath in 1832, down to the Suffragett movement and the Great War. The stately minute, the harp, picturesque Cries Old London, and other appropriate features will ...

Published: Friday 04 November 1932
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1198 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

40 YEARS AGO

... trick at Portadown show. The Picture House, Portadown. showed a film of The Sensational Derby, showing Miss Davison, a suffragette, attacking the King's horse. ...

Published: Friday 26 June 1953
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 90 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

... the eyes of 100 boys and male officers upon them? Well, it could all take time. After all, when Mrs. Pankhurst and the Suffragettes finally got the Bill passed for a fair deal in the world of politics, it took time for the female voice to be heard in ...

Published: Wednesday 15 May 1974
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 68 | Page: 13 | Tags: none

e 7 A 4 /77777 { s ’ 7 / Women's Lib. really began 2,000 8 ™ g years ago when Jesus gavea = d d . ~ Henry ..

... members. One record has to be put straight, I think. Women's ‘lib’ did not begin, as some newspapers seem to think, with the Suffragettes. It began when Jesus of Nazareth gave a new dignity and a new meaning to womanhood. In the days of Jesus no self-respecting ...

Published: Wednesday 19 February 1975
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 885 | Page: 14 | Tags: none

speaks

... included Mrs. Shirley Williams, a member of the government and Dame Margery Corbett Ashby, a 93 year old woman who was once a suffragette and founder member of the Guild. ...

Published: Wednesday 18 June 1975
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 104 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

Fran is always geared up for doing a man’s job

... Fran is always geared up for doing a man’s job Fran Hazelton's great grandmother was an active suffragette and Franisn't one to pass up an opportunity when it comes along. At present she is making history by becoming the first woman to enrol for a fulltime ...

Published: Wednesday 22 September 1976
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 316 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

Chain reaction to the robbers!

... Chain reaction to the robbers! THE day of the 'suffragette’ has returned to Portadown! But instead of women chaining themselves to the ralings, it's a case of chaining your bicycle to the railings! Th ‘chain’ reaction has come from the local police in ...

Published: Friday 25 March 1983
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 288 | Page: 7 | Tags: none

BBC 2

... 00 Film: The Bostonians. Starring Vanessa Redgrave and Christopher Plummer. Vanessa Redgrave's 19th-century New England suffragette recognises the extraordinary talent of a young feminist and takes on her education, but the girl soon finds her affections ...

Published: Friday 21 December 1990
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 169 | Page: 24 | Tags: none

Wool with postcards

... Hutcheson. They were the cheapest and quickest way to communicate, and popular subjects were Mabel Lucy Atwell drawings, Suffragette, Temperance and Home Rule movement cards, and those depicting Hitler, Churchill, or per- At the start of the meeting, members ...

Published: Friday 31 January 1992
Newspaper: Portadown Times
County: Armagh, Northern Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 406 | Page: 24 | Tags: none