Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...himself charm enough for the most difficult social encounter. "He is the only man," said one traveler, "who could be popular in Europe with a cross-eyed termagant for a wife." It happens, however, that Mr. Phillips, having reached age 32, married some years ago a Manhattan girl (Caroline Astor Drayton) whose charm matched his, and whose beauty outshone his manners...
...Phillips is a Harvard man of wealth and deep Bostonian rootage.* He had a classmate (1900) from St. Louis: Robert Woods Bliss, who also married a Manhattan girl of wealth and grace (Mildred Barnes). Mr. Bliss began to serve the U. S. in Porto Rico and has subsequently been skillful at Venice, Petrograd, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Paris, The Hague, Washington. Last week he reached the top title, the Secretary of State announcing his promotion from U. S. Minister to Sweden to become U. S. Ambassador to Argentina. In Buenos Aires, the Blisses will be responsible for the most expensive...
Thus, with the frank grin of a degenerate, did the most abnormal sheet in U. S. journalism, Publisher Bernarr ("BodyLove") Macfadden's New York Evening Graphic, last week embrace the divorce hearings of a pawky lecher and his fleshy girl-wife. There are thousands of Edward West Brownings in the U. S., but never before had one sprawled forth whose pathological condition included lust for publicity. The pornoGraphic, closely followed by its loose-lipped fellow-tabloids, the Hearst Mirror and the Patterson-McCormick Daily News, and abetted by an accommodating judge, proceeded with an exploitation to which previous obscenities...
...John Garrett Underbill, is the last and foremost of the 14th Street repertory. It is a tender melody of women, who, having taken the veil, strive with wistful severity, to abjure the world's dancing sunbeams for the grey routine of a Dominican convent. They adopt a baby girl. As the foundling sings from the cradle to womanhood, the nuns feel themselves, by her presence, just a little nearer to the throbbing joys of their dreaming. One day, the girl marries a young man and goes away. There is very little plot, even less action. But the play catches...
...doubt beef-eaters consider that in writing The Giant of Old-borne Novelist Owen was doing a Tolstoi. For hero there is a "sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love...