Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...justice to the "big brother" let me hasten to add that there were exceptions to this wholesale disappointment. Girls getting $12 or less per week are reported to have received a half week's extra pay to gladden their Christmas. This munificent consideration was extended to all $12 employes (it is reported) except one girl in the insurance department who was consoled by the explanation that the insurance department was not really a part of the paper and was at most only temporary. . . . A. LOWEMANN...
...bill against the gypsy and blow on it, while the gypsy neatly picks his pocket. For such practices, the police arrested seven gypsy women in uptown Manhattan a fortnight ago, and examined dozens more last week. Be these as they may, palmistry is practiced seriously by many an honest girl...
Water Pistols. If a girl refused to dance with a boy at a Rosewood High School of Rosewood, Minn., party, he promptly squirted her in the eye and dress with a water pistol. Twelve soaked girls went home from a recent party, caught cold, were absent from school for a week. Parents protested. Last week the Rosewood school officials announced that any person carrying water pistols or other squirting apparati would be ousted from the school...
...recent biographers of Galahad and of Napoleon collaborated on a title for this book, they would undoubtedly have chosen: "Talleyrand and his Girl Friends: or Too Much of his Private Life to Explain his Reputation." In which case, this review need have been written...
...question upon which the theme of "Conflict" is based, and in it Mrs. Prouty has evolved a psychological problem, the solution of which she has presented too insufficiently and inconclusively; in fact, she has given no solution at all. That is left to the reader. That the girl loved through sympathy and later regretted is not, however, left uncertain. Around this lies the theme of the story-a swift moving story; fine, truthful, engrossing...