Word: girls
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...became increasingly frequent as we sped along. Some of the bodies had been buried so hastily that the spring rains and early ploughing had uncovered them, with the result that in many places the air was black with crows hovering about in search of carion. A strapping young peasant girl, whom we found later in the day doing two men's work in the heavy fields, told us a moving tale of how German soldiers had forced her at the point of the bayonet to dig graves for their fallen dead...
...Courtney's "Good-bye, Vera," is a hair-raising "Crook" story, with a beautiful girl, a diamond necklace, handsome young villains, hand-to-hand struggles, and a detective flashed on the screen in rapid succession. It is melodramatic-but successfully melodramatic...
...Lamont's "People Don't Do Such Things," is the shortest story in the book, but it excels the others in technique and the powerful "punch." It is not as "light" a story as the preface promises; for it concerns itself with the tragedy of a working girl, who was foolish enough to fall in love with a University student, and to Ibsen herself into an early grave. The theme is well handled...
This is followed by "The Facts Concerning Owen Preston," by C. C. Whiting, in which the author tells in a very interesting way a story of occult power exercised by a man, once a Harvard student, over a young girl by means of a locket in the man's possession but which had belonged to the young lady...
...Miss Winifred Hawkridge, "Toy Soldiers" by Miss Agnes Von Slyck and "Garafelia's Husband" by Miss Esther W. Bates. "The Florist Shop" is a laughable comedy of unusual merit, having for its central theme the fulfillment of a spinster's belated romance through the schemes of a pretty flower girl. "Toy Soldiers" is a "war play" written from a novel viewpoint and portraying the lighter side of the present European crisis in an amusing manner. In con- trast to the comedy of the other two plays "Garafelia's Husband" is in a more serious vein. In a number of strong...