Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assistants. This seemed surprising. In a sense it was surprising, for even current civilization conceives women in business as mere factotums. Yet this woman-she is Mary E. Dillon, in her middle thirties-spent 23 years of apprenticeship with the Brooklyn Borough Gas Co., which she now heads. A girl just out of school, she went to work as office girl, errand girl, handy girl. Alert, energetic, intelligent she kept herself on the go. It was "Mary!" here and "Mary!" there, and Mary went everywhere. She saw other girls get dowdy at their stagnating office work. She saw men grow...
...find yourself sitting on the edge of the seat when the women who have left their happy homes for the Riveria and love come back and warn their daughters-in-law "not to make the same mistake I did, my dear." Do you admire a girl who, with a horrible example staring her in the face, can go off with a firm determination on the same chase? Does the sight of Romance battling with the forces of Society and The Right Thing, faltering, seeming to lose, and then winning after all, delight your soul? Go to the Circle. Lost...
...spring comes slowly up this way and you find yourself wandering about murmuring "O, to be in England now that spring is here", go to the Repertory by all means. Let your romantic soul be frightened almost out of its ectoplasm for fear the girl win do "The Right Thing" instead of running away from her furniture collecting husband of 40. Hope against hope and in the end wander out into the night again and down Huntington Avenue murmuring "There is a God." You old softie...
...Princeton, N. J., a score of ribald Juniors cheered the arrival of a Prom girl whose escort had chartered a buggy in her honor? imported it from still more rural districts at allegedly fabulous expense. "'THANKS for the Buggy Ride'! The Buggy, Buggy, Buggy Ride!" they caroled. "Lost all my pride! . . . Buggy-ridin'-lovin'! . . . I had a wonderful time...
...fights he fought made red blood for his heroes and villains. Once he had to climb up through a 120-foot chimney on a bet and fight a man when he came down groggy with soot and exertion. Penniless at 21, he married an American girl (Blanche Hawley), came to the U. S., painted scenery in the Astor Theatre. In 1906-07, three Manhattan publishers turned down The Broad Highway, most of which was written in a dismal, rat-run studio on Tenth Ave. He nearly burned it. Over 600,000 copies have been sold since an English firm took...