Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nice to look at-a lean little body and all dressed up in rakish clothes that nobody had ever seen before. Men said she was fast; but she was no girl for rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered...
...position as foreman of sulphur mines. Influenced somewhat by her father's high opinion of Aurelio, Dianella fell glowingly in love with the youth. Meanwhile, what with strikes and lockouts at the mines, the situation became so serious that Salvo decided to abandon the project of marrying the girl to Lando Laurentano and to give her instead to Aurelio, if that young man could quell the uprising of laborers. But the insensate miners greeted the representative of their inexorable master with knives and firebrands, and when Dianella heard that Aurelio (and a lady-friend) had been gashed and burned...
...father will come from his home in Reading, Pa., to attend my debut. My real name was Helen Howard, you know. Mother died some years ago. . . . My life reads just like the lives of Mary Lewis and Grace Moore. I do not cook. I am not an outdoor girl. Doesn't that sound banal...
Lights of New York, first seven-reel all-talkie, is made by Vitaphone (Warner Brothers). It was undoubtedly put together in a hurry; but as an experiment, like the first hot-dog sandwich, it is a palpable hit. The story concerns a young man and a girl who left a small town to seek Manhattan fortune. The girl dances in a nightclub. The proprietor makes advances. The young man is forced into the bootlegging business, though he would rather be a barber. It ends, after several murders, with a philosophical detective advising the young couple to go back...
...Racket. Thomas Meighan is the police captain. Louis Wolheim, of What Price Glory, is the bootlegging gang leader. Marie Prevost is the cabaret girl. "Skeets" Gallagher is a reporter. The result is the fastest moving, most convincing of the recent parade of rum-revolver-racket films...