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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arts: International Exhibition | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Fond | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Medicine Notes, Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Oct. 25, 1926 | 10/25/1926 | See Source »

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