Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cliff Collins, farmer, went to bed early that night. His house, with every window dark, stood at the edge of some cottonwoods. His daughter, a thin girl of 20 who had cooked for him since his wife died, slept in the next room; his son slept downstairs with his boots on;; his dog slept in the woodshed...
Cars stopped in the road; the long white figures got out. "Come down Cliff," hailed a voice. Stubborn and terrified, Farmer Collins would not open the door. The men broke it down. They took Mr. Collins off to the wood, and finding the trembling girl and the heavy eyed boy, took them along as well-flogged father, son and daughter...
...Half Way Down", a play in one act, supposedly a curtain raiser, proves that at least one Radcliffe soul has found the sawdust path to salvation better than the primrose avenue to disbelief. Ann, a shop girl whose diction approaches Thirty Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...
...what do you suppose, my children? Some naughty, naughty little girl went right up to the library table and read Harper's. If you don't believe me, read "Jane", a story told in the Socratic manner...
...paid much attention to Tom White and Huck Anderson. Their mothers gave them such "raising" as they got, which accounts for some of the differences between Tom and Huck now. Tom's mother was a college graduate and he was her firstborn. Huck's was a village girl (fictionized into a beautiful Italienne) who bore seven "brats" and drudged...