Word: girlhood
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...morning it is my custom to go at once to my brother and help him with his fairly bulky correspondence. . . . We partake of ... breakfast and frequently dine together at about 2 p. m. After dinner I play some athletic game. ... I deplore the fact that so many of my girlhood friends have moved to other countries upon their marriage, leaving me few intimates...
...billboard advertisement which portrays a young lady reading a letter to the effect that girls who seek pleasure in smoking are flocking to that given brand of cigarette, is an advertisement which merits strong disapproval and censure, because it is a flagrant luring and seductive effort to entice the girlhood of America to the habit of smoking...
Clasped in his arms, Janey rallies her swooning senses with ingenuity worthy of true American girlhood. She snatches her bandit by the hand, slips the guard, and makes for the sea, casting off garments by the way. Easily they swim to her yacht, and soon are steaming down the coast to safety. The last hours of the night they spend in chaste though earnest conversation on deck, and at dawn he leaves...
...given by the Hoovers. But the condition of her 78-year-old mother, Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, who had been lying ill in Northampton, Mass., for three months, became more serious. Accompanied by White House Physician Joel T. Boone and by Mrs. Reuben B. Hills of Northampton, her friend since girlhood, Mrs. Coolidge went home. Mrs. Goodhue rallied, then sank again. John Coolidge went down from Amherst to join his mother, accompanied by Miss Florence Trumbull. They waited...
...scene a Kentucky village. Its characters are the inhabitants of that village-people of strange ancestries, of dark longings. The central figure, more acted upon than acting, is one Theodosia Bell, born of a lustful father and a pallid mother. Briefly, the story deals with her girlhood; it develops her being, shows her as a neurotic, pitifully inadequate to face life alone and yet deprived of every supporting hand. It traces her relations with her father's illegitimate children-three mulattos of varying degrees of insanity. It follows Theodosia herself through an awful period of mania...