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...hell," said General Sherman, and college girls of 1944 have taken up his cry. From Oregon to Florida, from Sweet Briar to Bryn Mawr, lonely young American females bewail a shift in the balance of power between college men and women. The men now hold the reins...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Outnumbered Males Find New Technique for Dates | 12/15/1944 | See Source »

Those who bewail the absence of their skirted companions need only think that in former years there was only one summer term during which they were present, and that in the winter there will be no girls at Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Undergrads Attend Session 2 | 8/21/1942 | See Source »

...there's something I bewail...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PRESS | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

Mussolini comes in for the lion's share of the ribbing. First he is shown awarding the Victor Emmanuel Fertility Cup and other similar awards to a group of buxom mass-production mothers, after which public enemy number one comes forward to bewail the fact in a variety of ingenious ways that she can produce only one at a time. Il Duce appears again, as one of the "Four Little Angels of Peace," the others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Playgoer | 5/11/1938 | See Source »

Stanley remained unconsolable for the loss of his canine pal, killed Wednesday afternoon by a car which only barely missed the boy himself. Completely forgetful of his own narrow escape, he could only bewail his 'Patsy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BELOVED DOG KILLED AS AUTO BARELY MISSES HILLYER'S SON | 3/4/1938 | See Source »

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