Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another good chorus girl, hell-bent for Society. It is a gay, lively; and unimportant play, combining some features of "Easy Virtue" and the "Vanities...
...pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes off with a Latin-American. Jack makes a hash of his suicide, thereafter "awakening." With devoted Jill by his side he starts back up the hill of self-support to fetch a pail of the water of self-respect. ... Author Delafield writes well...
...have been worthy of the excellent title, but the author of this novel has bungled it. A discouraged ex-service man tries sheepraising on the Bad Lands of the West, and fails; as he is on the point of suicide, he meets a stray from the East, a shop-girl from Newark, who has been induced by a lady real estate agent to come to a boom town which has failed to boom. What could be more natural than that the hero should take this waif to his ranch, on the theory that two can starve as cheap...
...many students, if any, were beguiled by the appeliation of "cultured young American" into answering the questionnaires anent the modern girl sent out recently by a New York daily, will never be known; nor what heights of wit were reached by the frivolous minded. The whole absurd business, however, marks still more plainly a phenomenon of the last few years; a persistent attempt on the part of certain newspapers and magazines to "play up" the life of the college student. A college suicide, a fatal automobile accident involving an undergraduate is featured in headlines worthy of a declaration...
AFTER she had finished "The Little French Girl" and was engaged in the pleasant occupation of watching it become a best seller, Mrs. de Selincourt found herself facing a problem which meets every successful novelist--the problem of repeating a triumph. Accordingly, she wrote "The Old Countess" and thereby solved the difficulty very nicely. Those who were pleased with the former book will derive, just as much enjoyment from this...