Word: girls
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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...