Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-In the capacity of jury, the audience hears about a chorus girl who is guilty of much but not of murder (TIME...
Until a few years ago, oarswomen were required to weigh more than 120 pounds. But today, says Coach Eleanor Clifton, "the girls all seem to be growing thinner, and we cannot keep that regulation. Our only definite stipulation is that a girl have 'B' posture to qualify for crew, the rest depends on her natural ability." For three weeks before the class races, the oarswomen keep strict training: to bed at 10:30 p. m., a 15-minute nap each day, no eating between meals, no coffee, only one helping of wholesome food at meals...
...Young sparks also were compelled to walk the long miles that lay between their cottages and those of their well-beloveds. Arriving tired and cold, they sought some warmer, some sprightlier diversion than sofa sitting in a chilly chamber. Bundling was invented for their convenience. It consisted of putting girl and boy into neat, warm, supposedly secure garments and tucking them into bed, where they might lie, talking or drowsing through the winter evenings. The practice was regarded as an incentive to lawful matrimony; never was it considered in the least immoral. Later, however, the game was regarded...
Joseph Davidson of Chicago had a pretty girl, an automobile, a dozen watches and diamond rings. He drove into a gasoline station, said to the attendant: "Listen, sport, I'm in a jam. I've got to take my girl to a party and I'm broke. Can you loan me 25 bucks on this here watch?" The attendant obliged Mr. Davidson, who then went to other gasoline stations to dispose of his watches and rings. Mr. Davidson was no philanthropist. His watches were tin, his diamond rings glass. At the tenth station he was arrested...
COQUETTE-A frail beauty in a small southern town disobeys her father, falls in love, commits suicide. Helen Hayes is the girl (TIME...