Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...waited only a few minutes at the designated corner when a most attractive Paraguayan girl came up and greeted me as an old friend. As we walked toward a backstreet café owned by some friends of hers she said she had been given a good description of me and had been instructed to tell me about the opposition movement and the current political situation of terror in Paraguay. Someone in the crowd at the café moved her to grab my arm and hustle me out of the place into a taxi, which we left a block from...
...active members of the Paraguayan underground, the girl had assembled all the documents, lists of political prisoners, etc. that I needed for my story. Then, she said that if I were willing to go to Asunción jail and see for myself, she would arrange it for me and advise some of the prisoners that I could be trusted...
...next day the girl introduced me to an old man who was going to the jail to see his son. I was unshaven, dressed in rags, and I guess I managed to pass for a lower, class Paraguayan -although I narrowly missed becoming a permanent guest of the house when the guard asked me a question in Guaraní, the language of the Paraguayan pueblo. The old man spoke up for me and the guard, satisfied, admitted us into the unpaved courtyard crammed with prisoners. There was a big parade going on in another part of town, and I suppose...
...City, Beatrice Shopp, 18 ("Miss Minnesota"), was named "Miss America of 1948," winning a $5,000 scholarship, a Nash car, and untold publicity. Her measurements: height, 5 ft. 9 in.; weight, 138 Ibs.; bust 37 in. Her talent: she played the vibraharp. Said "Bebe": "I am only a farm girl. I drive a tractor. I clean the chicken coops. I mix cement...
...Beauteous Nancy Fletcher Choremi, 27, daughter of a U.S. career diplomat, arrested last July as a $100-a-night Manhattan call girl (and convicted on evidence obtained by wire-tapping), was let off with a three-month suspended sentence. Said the judge: "The problem of prostitution is not solved in a criminal court. It is a social, economic and moral problem...