Word: damsels
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...rapt flapper attention excited by tales of Joseph Hergesheimer's best seller. This is the least successful of the various Hergesheimer stories that have been hurled with some effect upon the screen. It seeks to reveal the spirit of the old pagan goddesses still inhabiting the modern society damsel - accomplishing this with gilded settings in Manhattan and Cuba, where the soul is so easily laid bare...
When King George and family went to open the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley (TIME, May 5) he espied a serving maiden and asked her if he might buy of her sweets. Said the damsel: "We cannot take money from Your Majesty." Returned George: "Then I won't take any of your sweets." So they parted...
...year a new Maid of Orleans is elected from les damoiselles de la rive gauche, and she is the figurehead of the Saint Germain Fair. About her gather the multitudes of Paris, and in the Quartier latin hoary professors vie with cherub-faced students to do the " lily-white damsel" honor. Then the procession begins and Jeanne d'Arc is followed by her army, garbed in the costumes of their ancestors, who march with firm intent " to boot the English out of France...
...very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel may rush on shouting: "I'm an egg! Watch me scramble...
...friends had not arrived, sighed heavily, and beckoned with boredom to two fair maids who had just come in. Now it might seem a little rough on those who had arrived early and were rejected, but who am I to complain? Instead of a professor a charming young damsel, albeit her nose was powdered. And the thoughtful youth enjoyed the lecture. In fact he seemed to think it was one of his regular courses, for he started to assemble his hat and coat when he judged the last paragraph had begun. And as the applause died out he too clapped...