Word: girls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Japanese girl was among the recent graduates at Vassar. She delivered an oration on "The British Policy Towards Japan...
DEAR HERALD : I have heard so much lately about that much-abused institution, sneeringly called the modern girl, that I just want to say a few things about her myself. I don't know whether it is "all put on" or not, but do you know that the very ones who talk the most slightingly about that "flimsy creachaw, you know," are the ones who are constantly trying to catch the "wegulah buttah-fly," and who usually get nothing for their labors but - left...
What earnest appeals we have from social moralists for the recovery of that lost art, "the old-fashioned girl," the girl who didn't wear bangs, nor high-heels, nor pull-backs; the girl who sewed, cooked and swept, instead of reading love novels and, like Boccacio, living them, as do the trifling flirts of today...
...soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain minister went so far as to forbid the young ladies of his church wearing the alluring bang. Of course you have read Mr. Grant's clever little book, "Confession of a Frivolous Girl," and perhaps you know many, many Alice Palmers, and some who flirt even more than did the lovely blonde or pretty Daisy Miller. Yet surely no one would say that the girls of today are not as good as those that our grandfathers loved. If you think that we live...
...Harvard students," remarks the New York Tribune, "are energetically cultivating their literary tastes. Lippincott is about to print a novel entitled 'Forever and a Day,' by one of the undergraduates, while another of the class of '84 has a volume of poems in press. 'A Tallahasee Girl,' of the Round Robin series, is reported to be the work of a third student...