Word: girl
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lord, bless the young," was the prayer of Anitsa Sheulic, little Yugoslavian girl, "make them sympathize with all living creatures and all human things. . . . Thus there shall be no hungry and naked children through the whole world; there shall be no more wars or any slaves among us, only brethren helping each other...
...week-end (Princeton is called Kingsford), the picture gives a fair conception of a gay time in those ivy-covered walls and takes high society for a bitter ride. Outside of that it also introduces an excellent portrayal by Lana Turner of an all too, too naive taxi-dance girl...
...none on ships. Their head is Mrs. Laughton Matthews, daughter of Sir John Laughton, the naval historian, and sister of a lieutenant commander on the Royal yacht. A weatherbeaten lady seadog, she was the first woman administrator sent to base in the last war, spent the peace with the girl scouts. Her women wear navy blue (with blue rating marks instead of the Navy's red), get paid a little less than standard naval wages and grumble a bit because many of them are Navy wives and have to stay put while their husbands move to new locations...
...Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree to radio studios, lecture platforms and the pages of some 25 periodicals (from the American Girl to the Atlantic Monthly)-all crowned with a face (see cut) that would take some women to Hollywood...
...Stem was delighted with the idea. Many a grown-up and many a child will be delighted with the result, especially if grownups follow directions by reading it out loud-"if you have any trouble, read faster and faster." The World Is Round has 34 chapters about a little girl named Rose and her cousin Willie. Long and serious practice has given witty Miss Stem a mastery over itty language that puts most children's writers in the shade. Any child can understand such information...