Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Some 1,800 fresh-faced women thronged the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, Manhattan-delegates to the 13th annual National Convention of Girl Scout Leaders. Their president, Miss Sarah Louise Arnold, made a speech to the effect that there is "more to hope for from the Girl Scouts and the Boy Scouts than from any other standardized form of education...
...idea is to bring a girl to the state of mind where she will look at a dirty floor in her home, not with a groan and a thought of how she may escape tidying it up. On the contrary, she will look at a dirty floor with critical eye, think how much better it will be when it is cleaned up, and set to work with the newest thing in mops and cleansers to complete...
...Girl Scout believes it is the latter place, and she gives her best to making it so. She learns to do away with nonessentials in the home, to throw away a lot of frippery little things and to have three or four really lovely things in their place...
...Radcliffe girl may not go to a concert unattended, and not more than five may attend a concert in a group. This group must possess the influence of one Senior. Chaperons to all affairs must be approved by the authorities, and shall in no case include the brother of a member of the party. Underclass-women must be chaperoned at any dance after 8 o'clock but their elder sisters may dance at a few specified places, provided they make the 12 o'clock deadline...
...prides himself upon his wrestling prowess. His troubles start when Luke Beamish, "what the world lacked when they built the Panama Canal" when it comes to getting "hot" with a shovel, is taken off the old "Isobel" and made his fireman. Luke is the father of the prettiest girl of the railroad yards, or something like that, and Casey as well as Superintendent Sweeney's collegiate son manage to run into plenty of milk cans and fall off plenty of platforms getting maudlin over her. Casey finally challenges his rival to a wrestling match which looks discouraging...