Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Does anyone know where this Parmalee College is that Red Grange goes to in "One Minute to Play"? I don't play football. But then Claxton hasn't been having such good teams recently. And I can walk beneath the trees with the girl friend almost as well as Grange. Of course he has played around with ice and knows how to treat that when it appears. Yet I can build a very good bonfire, and I like to talk to presidents, especially when they chew tobacco. That makes for community of interest. If anyone finds out where Parmalee...
...performance against a highly rated shooter, Frank Butler, both broke and stole his heart. Soon they were married and she later said, "Frank really reared me." They toured as partners until one day in Texas a cowhand yelled at Mr. Butler, "Git outa the ring and give the girl a chance." Annie Oakley broke glass balls to the crowd's contented amazement. Thereafter Mr. Butler was only her manager...
...companies have been making women's stockings 25 to 29½ inches long with no standard to guide them. Last week the U. S. Bureau of Standards, after measurement of 14,400 pairs, decided the standard length should be 27½ inches from heel to top. On a girl 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 130 lb., the hose will come eight inches above the knees. Stockings of this length can be held by clasp or band garters, or be rolled. Children's stockings will range from 15 to 26.5 inches. Men's socks will...
Gentle Grafters. An attractive damsel, under personal supervision of a wicked old baggage, would exploit the modern business man, remain a nice girl withal. Artfully, she barters little tokens of self-respect for ten dollar bills, dinners, gowns, invitations to the country. As it must, under even the most liberal credit system, there comes a day of reckoning. The poor girl has but one asset. She surrenders her virtuous distinction. A little moth, a little flame, a little singe-it is nothing to bring a lump to the throat. Katharine Alexander makes it more interesting than it deserves...
...meets Leeta, a young war widow of expensive tastes, who was rather up against it--a nice girl, of course, but one such as do live in the greater cities...