Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This is little less than a tragedy to the Japanese royal house. Girls in the Orient have no social standing or importance of their own; their position is always derived from the male, either their father or the husband they marry. Therefore, a girl may not succeed to the august throne of Jimmu Tenno, occupied by the present dynasty for 2587 years...
Emperor Hirohito sat gloomily in the Imperial Palace at Tokyo thinking of a name for his new baby girl. Imperial priests from the Imperial Sanctuary awaited in the Imperial Palace for the Imperial word; for they were to go to the Imperial Shrine of Ife at Yamada, 200 miles from Tokyo, and report her name to the Imperial Ancestors...
Storks. A small girl in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, wrote to the War Department, requesting a baby brother. Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, summoned his stenographer and dictated: "I have instructed the army aviators to watch the skies when they are flying around and if they see a stork delivering a little baby to tell it of your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer...
...dresses modestly for her work (an "alas, very cheap" fur coat). She discourages the advances of young men on the tops of busses, carries her notes in a neat handbag and would sooner sit home and read in the evenings than gad about at dance places?unless her girl chum is in town. To thousands and thousands of such young women any generous author of light fiction should feel a lasting debt of gratitude. Very well, then, such shall be Mr. Oppenheim's heroine; her name, just plain Edith Brown...
...girl was born to the fourth Earl of Mexborough and his Countess three score years and one ago. She was christened Anne, and as she grew up was familiar in London society as Lady Anne Savile. At the age of 31 she was taken to wife by Prince Ludwig Karl zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, scion of South German nobility. Two years later the Princess Loewenstein-Wertheim was a widow, when the Prince fell fighting against the U. S. in Philippine skirmishes of the Spanish-American war. Not until 1912 was the Princess again heard from prominently. In that year...