"The charge made against the women is that they fought to win; that they sprang a sort of poison gas on their opponents," wrote Frederick James Gregg in 1918. He was writing, of course, of the suffragists. "The fact of the matter is that they preferred to conduct operations in a way that suited themselves, and not in the way that suited the enemy." (The archive is free to all for a limited time—all you have to do is create an account if you're not already a Vanity Fair subscriber.) |
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