All 9 Uses of
suffrage
in
Main Street
- After his remarks upon suffrage he abruptly questioned her about herself.†
Chpt 2 *
- Perhaps the best known of his plays was "The Merchant of Venice," having a beautiful love story and a fine appreciation of a woman's brains, which a woman's club, even those who did not care to commit themselves on the question of suffrage, ought to appreciate.†
Chpt 11
- "And oh, by the way, we must oppose this movement of Mrs. Potbury's to have the state clubs come out definitely in favor of woman suffrage.†
Chpt 11
- With the great war, workmen in every nation showing a desire to control industries, Russia hinting a leftward revolution against Kerensky, woman suffrage coming, there seemed to be plenty of problems for the Reverend Mr. Zitterel to call on America to face.†
Chpt 28
- They welcomed Carol, asked about her husband, gave her advice regarding colic in babies, passed her the gingerbread and scalloped potatoes at church suppers, and in general made her very unhappy and lonely, so that she wondered if she might not enlist in the militant suffrage organization and be allowed to go to jail.†
Chpt 37
- Through her Carol met commanders and majors, newspapermen, chemists and geographers and fiscal experts from the bureaus, and a teacher who was a familiar of the militant suffrage headquarters.†
Chpt 37
- From her work and from her association with women who had organized suffrage associations in hostile cities, or had defended political prisoners, she caught something of an impersonal attitude; saw that she had been as touchily personal as Maud Dyer.†
Chpt 37
- At the flat they found her two housemates and a girl who had been to jail for suffrage.†
Chpt 38
- She was talking at dinner to a generalissima of suffrage.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(suffrage) the right to vote