Word: dolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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LISTEN TIME HOW CAN YOU CAPTION PIANIST MARGARET SHOTWELL A BROKEN DOLL WHEN SHE HAS THE GUTS TO KEEP ON LIVING AND WORKING IN SPITE OF HER LOST FORTUNE STOP HOW CAN YOU CALL THE GIRL A DOLL WHO DEVOTES EIGHT HOURS A DAY TO THE PIANO WHEN SHE MIGHT WITH HER YOUTH AND CHARM BE MAKING...
...world is the American debut of Margaret Shotwell. . . . Though her fortune is founded on Camel Cigarets she is being importuned to recommend Lucky Strikes. . . Beautiful . . charming . . . gowns to match the moods of her composers . . . Charming . . . buoyant. . . . She exhibits her diary as simply as a little girl exhibits a broken doll...
Smack! Whack! Twice on the face she slapped Critic Swaffer for referring in print to "her affected baby voice, [like] that of a ventriloquist's doll...
Kansan White said, in his Emporia. Kan. Gazette, that Kansas "hereby tells the whole world that there will be a real ruckus if Washington don't do right by our Doll...
...Only it wasn't milk in the bottle, it was brandy! . . . The only powder she's ever had on her hair is gunpowder. She could walk at nine months, talk at a year, and had a remarkable vocabulary of bad language before she was three. . . . The only doll she had was a cannon-sponge on a used fuse-stick, dressed in a soldier's waistcoat." When she grew up she was popular for more reasons than the obvious one. The soldiers said: "She'll die in her shoes, like the rest...