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her mind on doing a thing it
just has to be done’. But,
perhaps conscious of repeated
comments as to whether a
record-breaking woman could
be still feminine, when asked
if she smoked, she replied,
‘certainly not, I don’t agree
with the principle of women
smoking, just as I don’t
believe in bobbed hair’. The
paper then assured its readers
that her own hair ‘looks very
womanly’.