Synonyms:
Jacobs, Aletta_Jacobs
Meaning: Dutch physician who opened the first birth control clinic in the world in Amsterdam (1854-1929)
Synonyms:
Jacobs, Jane_Jacobs
Meaning: United States writer and critic of urban planning (born in 1916)
Synonyms:
Jacobs, W._W._Jacobs, William_Wymark_Jacobs
Meaning: English writer of macabre short stories (1863-1943)
Usage examples
ADAPTED BY JOSEPH JACOBS
I do not know what that is, but I think I have got it: it hurts me all over when I walk, and I feel as if I looked like Bill Jacobs's old cat, who, they say, is older than the oldest man in town; but of course that must be a slander.