Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...wench along a merry primrose path. Soon he contrived to exceed all expectations. . . . Wenches were, of course, not lacking. Hardly a "pub" in Hastings is without its ruddy Sussex barmaid. Had Edward of Wales but stopped in to dash himself against a whiskey and soda, one of these good girls would have obliged. But he, a nonchalant prince, preferred to do his primrose treading openly with half the maids and matrons of the town. . . . They came by thousands, to stand along the streets, flushed and smiling, as Edward and his staff strode along. Several times he smiled or called...
...calls for the applicants to enter. As they file in, in scanty costume, each is measured by the bird-like youth for hip, breast, ankle, calf dimensions. The evidence having been accumulated, the publisher ponders the records, the while his young attendant implores him to write his memoirs. The girl with the most perfect measurements is just about to be appointed to fill the position when in marches a woman in an old-fashioned bathing suit that reaches to her knees. She presents documents from the Messrs. Morgan, Rockefeller, Gary, Schwab, et al., testifying that she is the most efficient...
Tillers of the Soil. A French film records the adventures of two youths in love with one girl. The grandfather, symbol of the stern paternalism that runs with and parallel to the landowner's devotion to his soil, forces the girl to marry the less favored. The frustrated beloved goes to Paris, becomes a potent sculptor. He returns to fight the jealous brother, to die in the struggle. The acting is sincere though violent...
When I first saw the cover of the Lampoon's Wonder-Book, I felt sure I should enjoy the number. One could hardly imagine a more charming prelude--a boy and girl wandering across a fairy heath where on near the witch tree and far from the enchanted castle they meet a glant and discover elves; all this in exquisite tinis and April airlness. What a clever hand Philip Boone must have, I said; and I turned to the pictures within to see how the other articles had expressed the spirit of whimsey which must twinkle in story books...
...stories, of which there are many in both prose and veree--Hiawatha's Bowling, Joe Slow, the Boy Inventor. The Little Girl and the Kind Ogre, Jack the Giant Spiller, How Brother Rabbit Cleared the Yard, Archibald and the Surly Dragon, The Naughty Boy and the Vengeful Peauut--are all neat little yarns in themselves, and at the same time sly parodies of the plots, characters, and narrative manner of fairy tales...