Word: gal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Courtship. Dirty water from a blacksmith's tub, or the touch of a dead man's hand, will cure facial blemishes. A girl should never comb her hair at night, for this will "lower a gal's nature." On the last night of April, a girl may wet a handkerchief and hang it out in a cornfield. Next morning the May sun dries it and the wrinkles will show the initial of the man she is to marry. When a girl sleeps with her legs crossed, she is dreaming of her sweetheart...
...also important to recognize that this "G.I. Hamlet" is a dramatic but certainly not an artistic success. The bad taste of the Edwardian costumes remains apparent, and the music has hit a new low in Shakespearian efforts-an organ which reeks (literally) of Our Gal Sunday. The total effect of the production is, justifiably, an intended speeding-up and modernizing; only the bad taste which croops in occasionally and the inevitable shortcomings of Evans himself drag it down...
...tabloid readers with long memories, the Galápagos were the home of a lady known as Baroness Eloise, whose favorite costume was a pair of silk panties and a pearl-handled pistol. In 1934 she vanished with the latest of her seedy lovers and has not been sighted since-much to the chagrin of Sunday-supplement editors. Since her day the archipelago has been popularly regarded, at least by tabloid readers, as a lovers' Eden, with hibiscus and orchids everywhere and acquiescent beauty under every bush. But U.S. Army & Navy men who were stationed during...
...Conways, who still confess to enchantment, put the case with good sense and good nature: Santiago, Floreana and a few of the other Galápagos are all right for hardy folk, but eager escapists and romantics had better stay away. The Conways went there in the first place (1937) because they were almost broke. Drawing their last $500 from the bank, they bought passage and groceries, eventually found themselves with 13? left. On Santiago, their fondest neighbors were a convict and an assortment of rats, wild pigs and wild goats. On Floreana the neighbors were mostly wild cattle, which...
After their return to California and civilization, they had a letter from Frau Wittmer. "My dear friends," she wrote, "before you come back to the Galápagos, do it overthink one hundred times." Having overthought it, the Conways went back last winter, are now ensconced again on their favorite island, Santiago. They remembered the raptures of a friend: "Santiago air is cool and fresh, it rains plenty, and everywhere are pigs. Here is a pig, there is a pig, under every tree is a pig! It is just like paradise...