Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...such financial assistance. Nor would a jury of critics ever have given first place to Ferrazzi's "Horatia and Fabiola"; they would have chosen the obvious and imposing qualities of Mrs. Ernest Prostor's "The Back Bedroom." You can only see a corner of the bedroom. A girl with a primitive face and a fine supple body leans over the back of a chair. The skin has texture; the pose understanding; but over it all, the simplicity, the strong drive of the light into the picture, is something too glib, a derived accent. A jury of critics would...
world champion heavyweight boxer: "My engagement was rumored to a lady whose name appears in the Social Register. Said I: 'I don't even know a girl I could take to the theatre, let alone one I could marry...
...Newton, Jasper County, Ill., one Mrs. Flossie Jones struggled, sweat, yielded a girl baby. Labor pains ceased not. So her husband, deputy sheriff, carried her across the boundary line to Effingham, Effingham County. Six hours later she bore...
Stupid Reducers. At the meeting of the American Dietetic Association in Atlantic City, Supervisor Emma F. Holloway of Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, declared: "A tiny snack for luncheon, another snack for dinner is proving disastrous to the modern girl, who is so afraid of being overweight. . . . Men, too, are at fault with their customary coffee and pie for luncheon. They are reducing their vitality and making themselves liable to colds and pneumonia...
...wholeheartedly into the role of Clyde Griffiths, a poor boy who suffers the hard loneliness of being just beyond the pale of all for which he yearns. Unexpectedly, he discovers in Sondra Finchley, beautiful heiress, a sweetheart who will fulfill his dearest, vainest dreams. But in the poor factory girl, Roberta Alden, he has already set up a barrier to marriage with Sondra-the result of a lonely, passionate, summer romance. Too sensitive to break with Roberta, top weak to give up Sondra, he is driven in desperation to focus upon a murderous thought. From the actual deed itself...