Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from the Harding estate or relatives. She had been touring in Europe she said on money he had given her after his election to the Presidency. She hurried home and was astonished to find that he had made no provision in his will for Elizabeth Ann Christian," as the girl was said to have been called for "a good joke on President Harding's Secretary, George Busby Christian...
Editors were in a quandary because, startling though it was, every page of The President's Daughter seemed to ring true. Nan Britton did not sound like an adventuress but like a smalltown girl who felt she had experienced one of the worlds great loves. Moreover, names and places, letters, photographs and episodes were in great and confident profusion through the book. The bravest, most brazen charlatan would never have dared so much...
Meanwhile we are let into the secret that bootleggers have been using his house as a storing place for everything from champagne to bad gin. Kay, the bootlegging girl--oh, dear, what is the younger generation coming to?--appears on the scene, chased by bootleggers. It turns out that she had rescued Jimmie from--drowning one day when she happened to be speeding by in a mahogany speedboat, and it had been love at first sight all along although on account of complications, loyalties, and the rest of the usual good old hokum, everybody isn't happy until...
...pioneer stock, always pushing on to the new border-land of civilization. At the period of which she writes, a fierce conflict was being waged between the cattle interests and the general commercial interests that were striving to make the West a settled country. Although only a girl at the time, Mrs. Sullivan recalls vividly these stirring events in which her own family was engulfed...
...Wasps-Nest. Deep in a lonely forest stood a haunted house. No one ever came near it until the night this play was produced. Then there came two train bandits, a southern gentlewoman, a low comedy Negress, a skinflint, a town bum, a lovely girl, a lover and four other friends and enemies of theirs. Scarcely any of them knew anyone else was there; all were caused much uneasiness by noises of others seeking lost papers, pouncing on each other, shooting, screaming. Members of the cast not on salary included an apparition shooting up through the floor, a spectre over...