Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Filiberta Madruzzo, the Cardinal's niece, is "a beautiful and innocent girl" and "heiress to all the family wealth," yet he heartlessly imprisons her, "yielding perhaps to the threats or prayers of Claudia...
...will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees, it hangs upside down, its feathers swaying about like the chiffon drapes of a young girl's party dress...
...jovial column conductor who had once printed some of Marry's verse, swept him into a strange circle of struggling young writers, successful newspaper patterers, sophisticated critics. One of these, an ash-blonde beauty, lured Marry to her studio, and quickly taught him that his slangy little slum girl was wanting in veneer. But his slangy little Josephine bought herself books on rhetoric and elocution, and disappeared temporarily from Marry's scheme of things...
...winged lion on the column smiled a sophisticated Venetian smile." For Eric, magnificent blond, had just glided his plane on to the Grand Canal, and turned amorous attention to his passenger. $37,500 was the fare she had paid him to transport her, Catherine, decadent American college girl, from the Eiffel Tower to Java, and Philip, her (chief) lover. Meanwhile Eric served very nicely as more than pilot. It became necessary to draw the curtains of the airship, but the Italian populace continued to applaud hilariously, their gondolas created a serious traffic jam, and "the horses on St. Mark...
Engaged. Princess Ida, 51, legless, one-handed Coney Island freak; to Thomas Kelly, 51, owner of the Coney Island scooter ride. Plans for the wedding celebration included an exhibition of the varsity drag by the fat girl and the skinny man, and a fencing match between the sword swallower and the tattooed lady...