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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wants to lead a girl astray, he tries to get liquor into her so that she loses her senses and self-respect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: To Make a Better Country | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...other important differences in the two systems of education, he pointed out, are accessibility and control Edu cation is practically within the reach of every boy and girl in America, whereas the number of children in Europe who may receive an education is necessarily restricted. High schools in America are controlled by the locality in which they are, but in most European countries, either the Federal or State Government have direct control of the schools

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: JUDD LAUDS AMERICAN EDUCATIONAL METHODS | 12/15/1927 | See Source »

...Clive, even in his managerial decline, can't quite help being funny, but it's perfectly obvious that last night his regular performers failed to show up and he hurried over to the Plaza across the street and got the coat check girl and a dining room captain to help out in the parts of the rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint...

Author: By L. H. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/14/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard seems long ago and far away, consider one of Wesleyan's younger sisters--or girl friends, rather. Considerably less than a century ago the following regulations were more or less observed at Mt. Holyoke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Student Had Rigorous Religious Training in 1734--Girls at Mt. Holyoke Seminary Washed Potatoes | 12/13/1927 | See Source »

Very Confidential is designed to show that if Madge Bellamy were a shopgirl she could go to a fashion resort and make another girl's fiance fall in love with her. The picture would have been more creditable had Actress Bellamy been instructed to control her belligerent coyness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Dec. 12, 1927 | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

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