The half-dozen pieces […] were painted white and carved with festoons of flowers, birds and cupids. To display them the walls had been tinted a vivid blue which had now faded, but the carpet, which had evidently been stored and recently relaid, retained its original turquoise.

The young girls who came of age during the Progressive era were reaping the benefits of a century of struggle waged by their mothers and grandmothers — the clubwomen had negotiated an entrance into public life, and they now hoped to pass the mantle on to the next generation.

[…] the […] transactionalization of gender relations in the matrimonial marketplace […]

Oleksandr Abramenko of Ukraine took second in men’s aerial skiing on Wednesday, earning the country’s first medal of the Beijing Games.