Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...TRIAL OF MARY DUGAN-A chorus girl is charged with murder, her trial with excitement (TIME...
...Shanghai. Not in years has a truckload of U. S. Marines dashed so madly over rough Chinese roads to save the honor of a pretty American missionary, lured to a mandarin's den. Heavy with leers, threats, murders and stabbings, the dolorous drama follows Pauline Starke as the girl who loves Marine Kenneth Harlan, who is in turn loved by wicked Margaret Livingston. Evil sticks up like potatoes in Irish stew. It is all excessively Chinese, silly...
...Rogers says that the Queen of France gave birth to a female pickaninny and that courtiers agreed that the grimaces of her dwarf must have frightened her into what would otherwise have been a most dubious production. The black girl was baptized Louise Marie, and sent to a convent where she stayed until her death. French records of the period speak of a "black...
...girl contracted a skin disease when a baby, and later abscesses which formed on her eyes, presumably through inattention, rendered her sightless...
There are, as he thinks, three of these. One, a girl, is a shy little songbird from Italy, whose mother was a reckless diva; one is an impetuous English youth; the third is Antoinette Flagg, a saucy minx from the back alleys of Manhattan. The three of them gather in Sir Basil Winterton's capacious mansion; soon it becomes apparent that they regard their father rather than themselves as the proper object of a critical inspection. Having inspected, they,decide to adopt him, and he, bewildered but delighted, decides to keep his children. But one of them, the English...