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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would suggest that he take a walk around the Beecher statue in Brooklyn, and note that on the pedestal is the figure of a Negro girl raising a branch of palm to show the gratitude of her race. And perhaps, if the deep truth of that symbolism strikes home, he will doff his hat in salutation to a man the latchet of whose shoes he is unworthy to unloose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...need a watchdog or, if he does, why Calvin Coolidge shouldn't pay for it out of his own pocket as any other father would. 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Married. Theodore De Long Buhl, heir to $24,000,000 nephew of Florenz Ziegfeld and son of Mrs. Willis Buhl of Detroit; to Anastasia Reilly, onetime (1926) Ziegfeld Follies girl; in Manhattan. Present were Mr. & Mrs. Florenz Ziegfeld (Billie Burke) & others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...customary marital misunderstanding occurs, and the presence of a good-looking girl on the reporting staff of the Banner presents complications. Both husband and wife almost do the unforgivable, but eventually things are cleared up to their mutual satisfaction, and the reporter seeks refuge in a husband...

Author: By David LANIER ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

...Banner and of course she has the money. A dark, handsome chap, her childhood lover, appears suddenly, conducts himself in a manner to provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material for occasional "cat fests...

Author: By David LANIER ., | Title: A Page of American Fiction | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

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