Word: girls
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Next day, changing from Scout uniform to Alice-blue ensemble with black felt hat and silver fox fur, she visited the Girl Scouts' national headquarters, handshook 100 workers and said...
...epic tale of a lonely girl working in dusty grainfields is the story of Ruth. One of the most dramatic and colorful scenes in all literature is the description of her entering the threshing room at night, creeping to where the mighty farmer Boaz lay drunken on a pile of corn, softly snuggling herself to sleep at his feet. Question: Would a child suspect evil...
...elaborate court costume entered the royal nursery, bent over the royal bassinet, and laid a short ceremonial dagger beside the little Princess, a gift from her father the Emperor Hirohito which she will have by her all through her life to protect her from harm. Because she is a girl, he laid beside the dagger a tiny purple hakama, or ceremonial skirt. Soon came government officials led by bushy-browed Prime Minister Yugo Hamaguchi to pay their respects to the Empress. Shinto priests held thanksgiving services at three shrines in the palace: the Kashikodokoro, shrine of the Sacred Mirror...
...there finally be a direct heir to the throne of Japan? On the roof of the Tokyo fire house the siren hooted mournfully, rose to a high electric scream. Tokyo waited breathless. Then came another hoot, longer, more mournful. Sadly Tokyo realized that the Empress Nagako had borne another girl, her third.* Emperor Hirohito still lacked a son. The heir to the throne was still Prince Chi-chibu, his brother...
Remark about girl as a "broad...