Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Longworth, the hostess, would of course lead the way: "As a child I was shy; as a girl I ran hurdle races over the White House furniture; today I do what I please and enjoy it thoroughly. There are certain days that I like to recall: the day that I dined with my favorite monarch, the late King Edward VII . . . the day I was banished to New York from Washington by my father, Theodore Roosevelt, because I had bet on the horse races . . . the day I wore red riding breeches when presented to the Emperor of Korea...
...Herbert C. Hoover: "The society columns say that I am one of the least seen and most admired women in official Washington. Like Mrs. Coolidge, I have few intimates and many friends in the Capital. My hobby is Girl Scouts...
...known in the U. S. to be Mr. Gladstone's mistress. . . . Another was Olga Novikov whom the Tsarist Government sent to England especially to fascinate him, in the '70s. ... I have even talked with a former steeplechase jockey who said that Mr. Gladstone once tried to flirt with his girl. ... I once met a man called Cecil Gladstone who is said to be Mr. Gladstone's 'illegitimate...
Judith had its premiere in Chicago last week. Through many an irritating postponement the public had waited anxiously. Mary Garden had promised an opera that would make her Salome look like puss-in-the-corner. As Judith, the Biblical girl,* Miss Garden sang magnificently. The critics however, did not share her enthusiasm for the opera or for Arthur Honegger's music. It tended to leap from vigorous stimulation into dissonance-reflecting the modernistic trend...
...Chicago, on Jan. 18, Garvey Jones, 26, medical student, wrote a letter to the girl who had refused to marry him, killed himself with a revolver...