Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crane is the widow of George W. Beckford-a famous granite king of Hardwick, Vt., he having built such buildings as our Post Office at Washington, D. C. They had two sons and one daughter. This daughter died at the age of four years. She then adopted a little girl the same...
...Hour. A girl called Cuddles (Sally O'Neil), some rich and roistering men, flasks full of cockeyed consomme, petting nights and sad-eyed days -one just knows that Elinor Glyn wrote the original story. But old irony played its ace and The Mad Hour turned out to be tragedy. Cuddles married a rich man, got mixed up with a crook, was sent to jail, lost her child, committed suicide...
...sometimes startlingly successful effort to tell about the complicated agonies that go on inside of a character called Him and a girl called Me. When the focus on this effort is lessened, people on the stage sing "Frankie and Johnny" with splendid effect; homosexuals make their most blatant appearance on the Manhattan stage; three old ladies called "weirds" talk about a pet hippopotamus, saying "It's toasted but it died." On the whole, him is an interesting, well acted and ambitious failure. Author e. e. cummings (his own lower cases) is also the author of a bitter and unwholesome...
...Willis, a mean, unmarried, sturdy and unscrupulous cotton farmer; because he wants a son, he proposes to his hired girl. Her rough and ready steady, Jim Dolf (Elliott Nugent), has a fight with Farmer Willis, in the course of which he inflicts the injury that makes necessary a sawbone's attention. When this has been supplied, Mr. Willis marries little Amy and discovers that he is incapable of begetting any child. With pathos that comes close to bathos, he allows the hired girl to fly away with her true sweetie; he will marry a rawboned backwoodswoman, because she wants...
...total for the entire sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer for M. Knoedler & Co., who in turn were probably buying for Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness...