Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fifty-eight years ago a girl child was born in Ware, Mass., and christened Bertha Ethel. Her father was Charles Knight and her mother Cordelia Cutter Knight (the Cutter family came to Massachusetts in 1630). Little Bertha's brother is named Austin M. He is now a retired admiral. Her sister, Jessie L., grew up and married a widower named David Starr Jordan and is now wife of the chancellor emeritus of Leland Stanford Jr. University. Among the girls who lived in her little town was Rose Casey, now Mrs. Hayes, who is a member of the city council...
...rattle of hoofs. Fifteen mounted policemen had come up. They made brief sorties into the surf. Haggard men and women scrambled away from the iron shoes. No, someone was stepped on that time. A girl. The iron shoes stamped by. The sea, pushed from behind, pressed closer than ever...
Irene. Colleen Moore has been blended into a story which in its day was one of the most popular of musical comedies. It is about a little girl who grew bored with poverty and Philadelphia, came to New York, and finally married a millionaire. Miss Moore is, as ever, keenly attractive, and the picture is medium good entertainment...
...Vida Breve, opera in two acts by Manuel de Falla, based on the libretto by Carlos Fernandez-Shaw, had its first U . S. performance last week at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Paco, traditional scion of a wealthy family in Granada, seduces Salud, a black-eyed gypsy girl, deserts her to marry the more suitable Carmela. Salud would have him back, goes to Carmela's house on the evening of the wedding festivities, sings the warm, fragrant gypsy melody that won him first, dies of grief when he repulses her. On such an old, old story, unfattened by dramatic detail...
...Millar of that state.? Her cosmopolitan sophistication inclines to dapper young Count André de Servaise. Both men are out to marry money, of which Mary has little. A Wyoming interlude that might have been written by Elinor Glyn in collaboration with Harold Bell Wright and a Campfire Girl, eliminates Millar?and Mary's chastity. When she finally marries André, whose constancy does not soar above the average for Latins, she discovers the comfort resident in observing the adage about glass houses and stone-flinging...