Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first woman executed by order of a German court martial in Belgium for "recruiting" as opposed to "espionage." Within a few months Allied billboards were o'er-plastered with posters showing a brute-faced German officer commanding a phalanx of soldiers to fire upon a youthful, blooming defiant girl in the costume of a Red Cross nurse. The caption: EDITH CAVELL NEXT...
...Douglas Fairbanks to bite his finger nails. With all due respect to the superb acting of Mr. Barrymore, no sane adult can be expected to accept such revolution of character and such extravagant heroics, unless some overpowering agency transports him into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still an' all, he is good-looking." Padlocked (Lois Moran and Noah Beery). Here is a typical concession to the popular flair for denouncing everything puritanical. A reformer is represented as the fanatical persecutor of his lovely wife and daughter, both 100% virtuous...
Nutt: "I am not particular in that respect. I think I should prefer marrying a good, green country girl to anybody else...
...whisper to "Pop" Ederle. Suddenly the butcher stepped to the side of the tug. "Trudie," he roared, "remember you don't get that roadster unless you git over." The watery reply was indistinguishable to the people on the tug. Mr. Ederle beamingly assured them that his little girl said she was going to "git her roadster." The rain fell harder. The seas were treacherous as a swarm of sorcerers. They did not wage fair battle, but disguised in many shapes their malice, plotting curiously to undo her. Now an army of horsemen came riding against her breast, with plumes...
...also happened to be born with more money? The Yeas have hung up signs in their restaurants, boot-parlors, or what not, saying "Please do not tip," or "Our Employes Are Strictly Forbidden to Accept Gratuities from Strangers." The Nays remind their patrons: "Don't Forget the Hat Girl." Will new signs appear, "A Waiter's Life Is No Cinch"-"Give Your Bus Boy a Few Days at the Seaside?" Will lounging millonaires be requested to "Send Your Doorman to the Mountains," "Let Your Dollars Shine the Life of the Man Who Shines Your Shoes," "Help the Elevator...