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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problems were discussed. For example, in Costa Rica and in Portugal, Girl Scouts cannot camp out - in the one case because of snakes, in the other because tradition forbids girls to sleep away from home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Girl Scouts | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

There was divertissement too. Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave the leaders tea and Mrs. Walter Rothschild (daughter of Felix Warburg) gave them dinner. In addition there was a great review of 1,500 Girl Scouts of Westchester County, who paraded and cooked their dinners - frankfurters, lamb chops, eggs, potatoes, tea and bread - under observation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Girl Scouts | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

Then a scout contest was held for "stunts." First prize was given to a skit, Mr. Everyman Gets a Wife in 1936 (Everyman picked a Girl Scout because she could cook). Second prize went to a troop that built a log cabin, a foot bridge and a campfire in three minutes. A troop of young Negresses was honored for portraying a Girl Scout giving her seat to an old man in a street car, another troop for showing Girl Scouts rescuing flappers lost in the woods, a third troop for depicting "the wreck of the 20th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WOMEN: Girl Scouts | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...nurse Sascha, said recently after minutely examining the body of "Frau von Tchaikovski:" "This is the body of Anastasia. I know her body as well as I do my own. Anastasia had a brown mole on her back - her birthmark. That mark is there. Anastasia had flat feet. This girl's feet are flat. They are the same shape as Anastasia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tsarol Babe | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

...Tsar's four daughters all possessed luxuriant hair, clear delicate complexions, and a carriage and manner unaffectedly regal. Anastasia, a girl of 17 at the time of her reported assassination, was considered a distinctly handsome young woman hors de boudoir...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Tsarol Babe | 5/24/1926 | See Source »

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