Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...play football?" but "Can he dance?" is the question the college girl asks today. No admiring throng of females trails the football heroes from the Stadium. The husky halfback who risks his neck and limbs for his alma mater might just as well spend his time learning the black bottom, as far as the girls are concerned...
...Wynn is not as funny as he can be, but he continues safely as one of the five or six funniest men in the world. Surrounding him herein are stunning costumes from the designs of Roman de Tirtoff-Erté and executed by Max Weldy, Parisian; stunning chorus girls from the designs of Divine Providence; and periodic blasts of song. The thing also seems to have a plot, something about a girl from Manhattan slums who became famous in the Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary...
Black Velvet. This title is descriptive of skin pigments in blackamoors, the play descriptive of events surrounding the liason of a nice white boy with a jaunty yellow girl. It intends to describe a changing era in the South. The central figure is a bewildered Southern gentleman with whiskers, who finds that the Negroes no longer obey him; that reverence and elegance play little part in modern industrial life. These various factors are knit into an uneven play which kills four people (three offstage) every evening. Arthur Byron,* usually urbane and neatly pressed, does well with the bewhiskered ancient...
...University of Minnesota, girl students linger after lectures to talk to the instructor. During class they sit near the professor's desk, giggle merrily at his pedagogical jests, smile understandingly at his well-known eccentricities, make their pretty eyes look deep and sympathetic when he comes to the point of his discourse. Thus do the wily coeds, whose actual intelligence measures but 25 on a scale of 100, compensate for a ten-point deficiency in intellect, and extract grades equal to those attained by charmless male students whose measure of intelligence on the same scale is 35. Authority...
...welcome figure in France, where he became an exquisite and a popinjay. Asked to Russia by Catherine the Great, he went there to gain new kudos in naval warfare and to blunder about, a Scottish bull in the china shop of Russian diplomacy. Then, one day, "a girl in her early teens came to his rooms and asked for garments to mend. When the porter had withdrawn, she 'began some earnest and indecent allurements of person.' Jones, 'advised her to beware of such a career, gave her a rouble in charity, and dismissed her.' She refused...