Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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CREWE TRAIN-Rose Macaulay-Boni & Liveright ($2.50). An English girl "rescued" from her Spanish stepmother...
...Helen!" whispered a girl who had hurried through the swinging doors. "You're wanted on the 'phone. It's long distance...
That night in the waitresses' dormitory at The Balsams they discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...still, who was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Another girl spoke up. Once her mother had had woman's trouble, couldn't do the housework, father had got blue and grumpy. Mother had read an advertisement in the farm journal, got some big bottles and pretty soon been all right again. On the bottle it had said, "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." Nice tasting stuff, too. Lots of women swore...
...altogether extraordinary, far in advance of its time, indeed of this time too. Only a few pages are necessary to convince the reader that here is no hoax like The Diary of a Young Lady of Fashion in the Year 1764-65, published last winter by a whimsical Irish girl. Nor is there room left for wonder that this lady's descendants should have kept her journal in locked bureau drawers all these years...