Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many wards in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Mr. Vare's Democratic opponent, William Bauchop Wilson, did not poll a single vote; in 119 city districts in Pittsburgh, Mr. Wilson received less than ten votes in each. Mr. Vare received the votes of one dead man, of one 5-year-old girl, of 25 people who swore they had not been near a polling place. With such facts in his briefcase, Mr. Wilson is in Washington, demanding to have the election nullified. Democrats and progressive Republicans have singled out Mr. Vare as the darkest angel...
...midnight, on the Frankfurt-Hamburg express, a girl, 9, got out of her berth. She climbed up on the roof of the car. There she slept. When the train reached Hamburg a brakeman brought her down, chilly, but well-rested, returned her to her mother. The older woman apologized. Unfortunate, most unfortunate-not surprising. Her daughter was a somnambulist...
...crowded them in his elevator, he was retained for his faithfulness. And then had come forgers, offering him $15,000 to "look the other way" while they entered an office in the theatre building and drew bogus checks. Mr. Roedel's duplicity had been discovered through his girl friend, aged 19, whose heart he had won with free cinema tickets and whom he had taken to live with him in a $325-per-month Fifth Avenue apartment in his sudden, ill-got prosperity. She had given him away by bragging to an old friend of Mr. Roedel...
...Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite" is the pretentious title Mr. Sullivan has chosen for his volume, this being the first, and probably the best, of the thirty-odd selections that he offers. And Martha is an extraordinary girl. She is Mr. Sullivan's stenographer, with a penchant for turning somersaults and handsprings in the office, taking dictation while dangling by one leg from a chandelier, and using her employer's purple suspenders for exercisers, with inkwells tied to the ends for weighs. You can imagine what a hard time poor Mr. Sullivan has with...
...Coles Philips would say, it's small enough to fit any girl's stocking as well as to rest upon her knee--a sentence which suggests that "Oddly Enough" is a very fine book. An arrangement in black. Mr. McCord in the words of Whistler implies that he has attempted a sortie into the field of etching. The implication may be accepted. His sortie is quite successful...