Word: girls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hollis - Southern in The Dancing Girl...
...Angel of The Adoration" is the title of the first piece of contributed writing. It purports to be a series of extracts from the writer's diary at Oberammergau during the passion play. By means of a series of daily entries the girl who played the angel of the adoration in the passion play is made to fall most hopelessly in love with the writer. She was the daughter of the landlord at whose hostelry the family of the writer were staying and her passion was conceived as she waited on the young gentleman at table...
Lasell has pledged $5,000 for a working girl's home...
...paid with but one proviso - that everything used in construction and equipment should be the best procurable. In addition Mr. Drexel has given securities to the amount of a million. The result is that the edifice is without an equal in the world. The institute will take boys and girls and give them a practical education and one that is not too much like a specialist's. The pupils on leaving will be well equipped to begin life and will find no difficulty in obtaining a situation. A girl can learn dressmaking, that is manuals then in another department...
...diction is fairly exact - although there are several marked errors. For instance, a man doesn't "use swear-words", he "swears" or he "cusses." And we wonder, also, when a "girl's deep blue eye twinkles with humor," what she does with the other. Possibly she winks it! The whole thing is a marionette show in which the principal puppets are manipulated in an unskillful manner. The author of the story has shown himself capable of far better work...