Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: -... In regard to the Pullman girl's name (Question 17, Game 8), I hold that my name is just as good as "Bertha." I named her "Carlotta," though at first I called her "Caroline...
...when the 20th Century was young, the story of the mighty house of Peel came to the ears of Beatrice Gladys Lillie, born in Toronto, Canada, of an English mother and an Irish father. Perhaps that was why her heart beat high in 1919 when she, a musical comedy girl, met a tall, blonde gentleman by the name of Robert Peel-the great-grandson of the great Sir Robert. In 1920 she married him, became mistress of haloed Drayton Hall. Her fame spread through two continents as the frolicsome dancer of Chariot's Revue. But her husband, neither statesman...
...marquis: "Some people accused me of giving blatant gold-digging advice when I told a New York World reporter the following: 'There are times when clothes are about the best investment that a woman can make. If, instead of bleakly saving for her old age, a working girl puts her surplus into attractive gowns, she stands a chance of making a marriage that will change her whole life. A girl is foolish to be too thrifty with her clothes budget, especially during her prettiest years. . . . Every girl I know who made a good marriage this year was the type...
...murderous butting match they had; mumbling Maum Hannah, midwife, with her jumbled accumulation of animal sense and primitive witchcraft. The tragic quality of racial backwardness and superstition is developed with all possible force by treating it in natural minutiae instead of as a theme. To cut a girl's birth pains, a granny lays a whetted axe beside a plowshare under the bed. The moon's phases are watched and calculated for everything from corn-planting to paring finger nails. Good manners are the highest plantation criterion: it is bad manners to dislike soap and water, to have...
...Muncie weekly continued to rub salt in His Honor's wounds. Typical salt was an inference by Editor Dale that the reason Judge Dearth's daughter ran away from home might be, not mental derangement, but moral. The girl was later found dead in a river. But Judge Dearth, irate and mortified, had meantime over-exerted his powers by arresting newsboys, confiscating their Post-Democrats and forbidding them to sell any more. The howl that Editor Dale was able to put up over this and other "Dearth scandals" persuaded the board of managers of the Indiana House...