Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beautiful Isle" Sirs: When I was a little girl my poor mother many an evening sang me "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," the song which you report Cardinal O'Connell of Boston denounces [TIME, Oct. 17]. She would hold me in her arms and sing the song over and over again. It soothed her poor heart for the untimely death of my little sister. Cardinal O'Connell can have had little no children die in his family, or he would not be so callous to such a consoling, lovely and song. please...
...criticize John Coolidge's having a private detective. TIME, Oct. 17, reported the Nation as having so criticized, quoting the Nation's query: "Are we to wind up by charging the American people for a nurse for Calvin Coolidge's fourth cousin's baby girl Gwendolen or a veterinary for his wife's great aunt's pet poodle Trixie...
Called to witness, Miss Lewis, famed onetime chorus girl who is now an opera soprano, said she had been cold. All day she had been sitting in the studio in the scanty beads and satin of Lady Giulietta. The slinky costume of a courtesan is not designed for stage waits. "Chilled, depressed, exhausted," she complained. Gallant, Mr. Adams sent for brandy. Grateful, Miss Lewis drank. Warmed, she sang. Ousted, Mr. Adams is suing for his salary...
...papers printed smaller and smaller notices; even of the feat of Dr. Dorothy Cochrane Logan, (Nom de mer Mona McLennan) in bettering Gertrude Ederle's time. To Dr. Logan was paid the $5,000 prize offered by Lord Riddell of the News of the World to any British girl who beat the record. She had grooved the dark wet miles in 13 hours, 10 minutes; 81 minutes faster than Miss Ederle...
...anarchist, a distaste for violence prevented him from achieving important success. Desire for culture made him tour Europe and a thirst for more education made him come back and study post-graduate philosophy at Columbia University. Then he finds Ariel, a Jewish girl of 15, with whom he falls in love. They marry and find happiness in the pursuit of wisdom and the possession of love. A closing chapter, called "I Become A Daddy" announces, with infinite detail, the birth of a daughter to Mr. & Mrs. Durant...