Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were all good Girl Scouts-and as tired as I am-" said the white-haired lady in the grey-green uniform, ''you would all sit on the floor...
Upstairs a policeman enters (Edward J. McNamara). He has been sent by the indignant fiance, but is speedily pacified at the mention of liquors. Says the girl: "Why, policemen never drink, do they?" Says the bluecoat: "It just seems like never...
...when she has accepted her host's guest pajamas and is determined to accept his love, the girl falls to weeping. Thereupon the sympathetic tenor tucks her in bed with a large teddy bear, goes elsewhere for the night. In the morning his honorable proposal is accepted...
...year filled with the marriages of prodigies-George Herman ("Babe") Ruth to a showgirl; Charles Augustus Lindbergh to the shy, poetic daughter of an Ambassador; James Joseph Tunney to an outdoorish girl descended from one of the great steel families-not the least startling was the marriage of John Gilbert, ballyhooed by millions of shopgirls as the greatest living exponent of male sex appeal, to Ina Claire (TIME, May 20). It was particularly startling because up to the moment when their marriage was announced Gilbert was supposed to be betrothed to Greta Garbo, the greatest living exponent of female...
...needed, she insisted, was emotion. She made what use she could of this quality in her first vaudeville part, which she achieved in 1907, and which consisted mostly of imitations of Harry Lauder. After warming up on Orpheum and Proctor circuits she played in the cast of The Girl from Utah in England, then in another play or two, then back to vaudeville, then in the Follies of 1915 and 1916. Ziegfeld, who liked her imitations, let her do one of Marie Odile, star of a Belasco play then current. David Belasco saw her and gave her the leading role...