Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Born in a poor stone hut, there is now no palace that the native peasant girl of the Romagna might not enter. She has been a toiler in the fields, a gatherer of grapes, a shepherdess, a household servant, even a tavern tap-wench. Today, by a pretty pirouette of Fate, she is the consort of a man on whom Italy has bestowed the Collar of the Annunziata. He who wears that supreme badge and his wedded wife are both legally "cousins of the king...
...said the girl, "the words don't mean much, but it's a pretty tune...
Ridiculous. The girl was no....ahem..."flapper". Those clear eyes were to transparently frank to habour double meanings, or shall we call it double entente? Was she a philosopher?....Did that noble brow shield an intellect comparable to her outward beauty?..Was this her philosophy of life...
...between evolution and revolution?" Principal Tate told her what revolution was; told her to look in the dictionary for the other word. Elizabeth Walker did so; she found that it meant, "a process of development." When the class heard this they wriggled on their chairs, frightened. Said one small girl, her big brown eyes very wide open, her voice very hushed: "Evolution means to come from a monkey." Principal Tate answered her quickly: "... a man named Darwin wrote a book about that theory but no man ever said the theory was true." Then Principal Tate placidly remarked...
...children sat very still for a while after that. They could see "evolution" dancing around in his cage, twinkling his terrible eyes at them, smiling at them with his wide black lips. Soon he would jump out of his cage and wrap his arms around them. One little girl jumped out of her chair and ran down the aisle. She went straight home. Soon another one followed her. "They told their parents what Principal Tate had said. The next day the parents of the two girls together with other parents called on Principal Tate. Then they called on the chairman...