Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whispering gallery whispered in 1922 when Camilla Loyall Ashe Sewall, young society girl, married Senator Walter Evans Edge of New Jersey, a man twice her age. Today no one can say that it has not been a happy marriage, that Mrs. Edge has not added a youthful zest to Washington society, that she has not brightened the lives of unhappy Congressional wives at many an otherwise dull luncheon or dinner. This January she was undoubtedly surprised and flattered to hear that she had come within a few votes of being elected president of the Congressional Club...
...last week Their Majesties were still reigning in the good old way. At the London Hospital, Queen-Empress Mary bent for a moment last week over a crippled girl...
Then, turning to the brown-bearded man who was standing near a cot across the aisle, Her Majesty continued: "Come here, George. This little girl wonders why we are not wearing our crowns. This is the King, my dear...
...York. She remembered how papa and mamma had become religious, converted. The old home in Oklahoma, 80 miles from a railroad, was forgotten and plans were made to leave the new house in Fresno. Meetings were arranged, hundreds of meetings. Uldine liked to talk about God. The girl grew loquacious, talked all over the country. It is said she has converted...
...intent upon defeating Demon Rum that she flushes her two little sons with anti-whiskey solutions. The result: one becomes a mute, the other a paralytic. Later in life, a thunderstorm suddenly starts up during the third act to provide atmosphere while the mute is engaged in raping a girl. This reprehensible sight so enrages the paralytic (20 years bedridden) that he suddenly renews his synaptic connections, skips out of bed, does successful battle for the Right. The play's existence testifies to at least one of the evils of Prohibition...