Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...edit for millions know the value of a theme, which, how ever falsely, shows that the many are more fortunate than the few. But so stale and discredited is the theme that alert editors nowadays freshen up the piece by having it told and signed by the "society girl" herself. Last fortnight nickel-weekly Liberty published a story titled...
TOUGH LUCK BEING THE SAD STORY OF A SOCIETY GIRL...
There was not much out of the ordinary in the story Liberty printed. No sad tale of Miss Oelrichs' life did it tell. Instead, it purported to be her opinion of the state of "desperation" in which the modern society girl finds herself. "I have become convinced," the story went, "that if you took equal numbers of rich girls and of others in moderate circumstances, you would find among the latter infinitely more contentment, greater freedom, and truer happiness. . . . 'Are you happy?' I have asked so many well born and rich girls I know. Their answer...
...RANG THE BELL- Milward Kennedy-Crime Club ($2). The doorbell rang, and when the door was opened a corpse propped against the outside fell into the apartment. The man who answered the bell had been talking over the telephone when the bell rang- the girl at the other end of the wire vouched for that. Bloody gloves were found in the night porter's pocket. One groundfloor tenant was a notorious jewel thief. The landlord and the top-floor married couple were also suspects. The murderer, like everyone else, was, indeed, indoors-where any of Author Kennedy...
Seeker. These sights are interlinked with a perpetual seeking. At first the author senses a mystery; he wishes to know "how it is with human beings." Girls, he decides, are the mystery, for even the complex Ferd, whom he plainly adores, is not. With Hilde he craftily sets about a solution, but neither of them, aged 12, knows quite what to do. For three marks the butcher's boy consents to exhibit the mystery with a Polish girl, but the author runs away believing the girl is being murdered. When he later undresses the sleeping Mein-chen, a farm...