Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...That night many a white-clad nine-year-old girl from the nearby Lochearn Girls' Camp dressed in bloomers and middy blouses came over to the Coolidge house and piped in childish tenors. "Here's to Mrs. Coolidge, Mrs.Coolidge, Mrs. Coolidge Here's to Mrs. Coolidge, she's with us today! God bless her, we love her! God bless her, we love her! Here's to Mrs. Coolidge, she's with its today...
...John Jacob, against quiet David, 15, a bit self-conscious in his natty new long pants. "Smile, Jakey," said Lady Astor. Reporters quizzed. She answered graciously: No, Phyllis did not drink. Yes, the English liked Will Rogers. No, she was not going to bring Phyllis up as a typical girl. She loathed typical people, despised 100-percenters of any nationality. Yes, she liked the modern girl. No, she was no Socialist; she was a social reformer. Yes, the English are wonderful in a crisis. No, she would tell them nothing about the annexation of Canada; she knew nothing...
...cases, he will have been crossing the street properly at an intersection; in only 17.3% of cases will he have been "jay-walking"; in only 1.9% will he have been drunk. The chances are 27% that you were driving properly; 39% that you were inattentive (arm around girl, gaping at other car, reading street name, etc.); only 4% that you were speeding; only 4.7% that you skidded. Of New York's 47,128 accidents in 1925, only 148 occurred at railroad crossings. Pedestrians figured in 30,811 cases; 58,444 vehicles were involved. Pleasure cars were over three times...
...damn her, the unchaste nymph, Perdita Robinson. But there are extenuations. Her husband lavished their little on drink and mistresses. She was only 19 and three years wed unhappily. When brilliant Dick Sheridan heard her as "Juliet" and persuaded gruff David Garrick to train her, she was a desperate girl, desperate enough to keep Sheridan as a brother; virtuous enough, after London was at her feet, to show Sheridan her offers from the rakes and have him compose stinging refusals. Nor did she succumb to the Prince of Wales (George IV) in a guilty mood. To her he was verily...
...danger sailing the world's seas. His first woman, and one or two afterwards, taken not lightly, give him flashes of the same gathered intensity that comes in moments of imminent destruction. For a time, convalescing from a wreck, he finds "rounded contentment" with a supple, unpossessive Cornish girl, Jennifer. But she dies in childbirth and Tom wanders the oceans again, to shed life's monotony at last by sailing a flaming ship into a towering waterspout. There is much overwritten "psychology" in the book, but also much sensitive color-the reflection of a ripple crossing a ship...