Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That was when Fanny was still a girl's name...
Author Wilson, 34, went to Princeton, to France. He has been managing editor of the smartchart Vanity Fair, writes poetry and essays for the New Republic, liberal weekly. Several of his characters are supposedly derived from real people: Rita-Poetess Edna St. Vincent Millay; Daisy-Florence Murray, onetime chorus girl. Others said to be represented: Novelist John Dos Passos; Princeton's genial, erudite Dean Christian Gauss...
Mountain Fury explains the malevolence which exists in the Alleghenies between the hill proletariat and the dale aristocracy. Naturally a dale-boy loves a hill-girl, to the accompaniment of baying hounds, tempests, a forest fire, murder, suicide, theft, and the bemused mumblings of a woodland lunatic...
Alexander Pushkin once wrote a story which concerned an old countess and her granddaughter, three cards and the young girl's lover. The old countess was called Pique-Dame (Queen of Spades) because years before as Belle of St. Petersburg she had attended masquerades in such a costume and because-this was only whispered about the court-she knew three cards by which a gambler could infallibly make his fortune. The soldier, Heran, loved Lisa, the granddaughter, but he had no money. The countess's secret preyed upon him and he hid himself one night in her room...
...November 1846, she was born on a Kentucky farm. From her mother the girl inherited delusions of grandeur and, possibly, a syphilitic infirmity. Until the age of nine she fibbed regularly, stole money, perfumes and laces from relatives. Then "consumption of the bowels" drove her to bed, where she began memorizing the Scriptures. Recovering, she became no sinful "great lover" despite the boastful penitence which she later expressed. When young Doctor-Boarder Gloyd kissed Carry, 19, in a dark hallway, she twice shouted: "I am ruined!" She married this man. She blamed the failure of the union, and her husband...