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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted to fly to England. One was slim Lou Gordon, mechanic, 26, in aviation since 1919. The third was a girl who looked exactly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Eastward | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

...Auteuil, France, Helen Wills came to the semi-finals of the international hardcourt championship. She beat a nervous Dutch girl by the name of Rollin Couquerque who weighed nearly 200 pounds and made twelve double-faults. With Francis T. Hunter for partner Miss Wills played an exhibition match in Paris against Eileen Bennet (England) and Henri Cochet. All four played at top speed, laughed when they missed, congratulated each other, made jokes, and agreed with the umpire. Bennet and Cochet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Courts | 6/11/1928 | See Source »

While all the publicity world bates its breath, a Diamond Queen and a Girl Lindbergh count one for the money, two for the show preparatory to passenger rides across the seas. Air rivalry, a duel of the clouds, is the motif seized upon by the fun--loving tabloids...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKE THE AIR | 6/8/1928 | See Source »

...profitable sport, while it lasts this intercontinental hopping. Two heroes who initiated the game have folded their wings and perched in prominent executive positions. An only semi-successful aviatrix has achieved silks and satins and the acclaim of America's girl glorifier. Others wear the badges of army-rank, possess the bank-accounts of Correspondence School successes, and appear weekly in the suburban newsreel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TAKE THE AIR | 6/8/1928 | See Source »

Metropolitan--Bebe Daniels in "The 50-50 Girl", which is supposed to be pretty funny...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 6/6/1928 | See Source »

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