Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Svenska brawn with a girl's face on its wishbone...
This 'was the chunky little girl, born 27 years ago in Copenhagen, Denmark, whose father wanted her to be a great musician or a prima donna. Vocal lessons bored Amelia. At six she took to the water...
...wife almost go under in the backwash of the Amsterdam steamer Ulysses; he saw a gleam ing porpoise turn over, 20 yards from the mother of his two chil dren. But on the sands of Dover he kissed her, revived her, said: "She's the finest girl in the world, and the best swimmer in the world." Meanwhile, one C. Walter Lissberger, a Manhattan tire merchant, who financed Mrs. Corson, collected $100,000 from Lloyd's, London, on comb, the grandfather, a splendid man, a dead lover...
Lottie's vanity in wearing tight shoes, and the presence in town of a "Westopractor," suave quack, supply Mrs. Bascomb with tools for a Lady Macbethian coup. She engineers the perfectly healthy, stupid girl into bed with "spine trouble." Hypochondria sets in. Lottie is bedridden...
...among those realists who feel obliged to abandon sound prose to get an "effect." The Author. In Europe they regard Dorothea Frances Canfield Fisher as a ranking U. S. writer, one broadened by a cosmopolitan life but never apologetic for her Kansas origin. When she was a high school girl in Lawrence, Kan., a dashing young Army officer taught her to ride horseback and do higher mathematics. This officer has since been known as Gen. John J. Pershing and while he was helping to conduct the War, Dorothy Canfield did "the steady, quiet work of holding life together" in relief...