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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...showed signs, even as a little girl, of a peculiar temperament. She was hysterical and impatient of restraint, would fly into the most awful tempers, over the least trifle, and often lost control of herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Mussolini Trionfante | 4/19/1926 | See Source »

Another rather typical moment is at the opening of the second act when Lieutenant Van Renssellaer assures us in a most mellifluous baritone that he is searching for the Girl of His Dreams. While he is still hunting for her rather noisily, the chorus enters, and performs a really beautiful minuet, which happily detracts attention from Lieutenant Var. Renssellaer's Night Mare Mamma...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former Crew Captain and Author of "Deceit" Praises Pudding Show---Goofus, Colonial Saxophone, Intrigues | 4/15/1926 | See Source »

...this place what with bro. taking out the inside of the local Music and Noise Inc., twenty-seven fifty and to be paid for when you're caught, and so forth. But as I stood up to remark when you let fall the receiver etc. your once and always girl friend has a new one. Looks, dance--he was mayor of Charleston before Coolitch, which is no joke, and hair, dandruf, wood ware chains to keep on it. Well anyway he is now moving your's of the first inst about like nothing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

...changing and I said so was my mind about his spending the night on the front steps as the milk bottles has to have their chance. So he went home walking because he had used his last cent on the taxi. He is very generus. So your old girl friends rates a rill Harvard dance and tries out the green tafeta on the halls of lerning. Ha. Ha. It is about time that Harvard woke up and got a little bit colleege. This having a brother what goes to a correspondents school rooks the works. There dances don't come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 4/13/1926 | See Source »

These women are of high calibre, capably accommodate the stranded youngster and firmly reject the leering bummer who wants a ticket "from Manhattan to San Francisco." Him they send to lodging houses or other social service societies. The child, girl or woman, if relatives cannot be reached immediately, is taken to the Guest House of the Manhattan Society on E. 43rd St. If traveling funds are needed, the Manhattan agent wires to relatives or to the Travelers Aid worker in the far city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Travelers Aid | 4/12/1926 | See Source »

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