Word: girl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Miss Campbell's constituents, who live in Johnson County's richest township, are farmers, mostly young, with large families. She urges all her boys to go to high school. One of her girl graduates is a beauty shop operator in Iowa City, another is doing housework in Evanston, Ill., saving up to study nursing...
...their Sunday best, drove in to Iowa City's Courthouse to hear the finals in a county declamation contest. Schoolmarm Campbell was there, too. So was laughing-eyed little Irene Leonard. Irene, 7, stepped up and recited a story, entitled "Paddy's Pets," about a little girl whose pet dog and cat jumped out of her father's overcoat pockets in church. When her pupil was declared winner of the contest, Miss Campbell permitted herself a proud smile...
...Hillis proposed that the tortoise be substituted for the eagle as national symbol. A great Liberty Loan speaker, Dr. Hillis peddled lurid atrocity stories, some of which the Christian Century printed. One of the Doctor's favorites: "When the syphilitic German has used a French or Belgian girl, he cuts off her breasts as a warning to the next German soldier...
Beasts of Berlin (Producers Pictures Corp.). In the windy March of 1918 Manhattan's flag-wrapped Broadway Theatre flaunted an announcement: "WARNING: Any person throwing mud at this poster will not be prosecuted." The poster advertised a new thriller: The Kaiser, Beast of Berlin. Inside the theatre, girl ushers, togged out as Belgian peasants, distributed programs which promised "an amazing expose of the intimate life of the Mad Dog of Europe." The picture did not quite live up to the promise. It described the hardships and eventual victory of the conquered Belgians. Hero was the original Tarzan, big, soft...
...wife takes headache tablets which her frightened son inadvertently mixes up with poison after breaking a poison bottle. The doctor and the Austrian girl are held for murder. Sentenced to be hanged, he is comforted by the thought that other people find most disturbing: "Death is not the worst thing we have to face, only the last...