Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...students at Smith College is lost. A country wide search has been organized but no one has yet been able to find the missing lady. It is time for reflection on the problem: Can the college girl take care of herself? Psychologists and others claim that she can--when she is in a crowd. For safety the question resolves itself into: Should the college be maternalistic? Facts seem to show that it is so. Facts seem to show that it is so. There are all sorts of rules to take good wholesome care of the undergraduates--no smoking, restricted week...
...Entwistle as Ellie Duan was the most interesting. When the play opened upon its strange first scene, the room like a ship's cabin in Heartbreak House, Ellie Dunn was a living character. Before the play was half over she had turned from a young and attractive girl with her own personality to a type hard and cold and self-seeking. And when the play ended she was again become a living personality. It was this transition which Illustrated most exactly the difference between Shaw's characters and his types...
...they came from Radcliffe. I know because they had escorts and ate very little. The usual female occupant at the evening tables at the Georgian eats very much. "Say, I guess I'll have a chicken salad sanwidge--Yeah, coffee."' No, you can't fill the poor working girl. Yes, I was surprised to see so many young college women in the place--and was quite delighted. A study in contrasts--or are they--is always amusing. Especially when two of those burly brothers in blue--the kind that read the Lampoon begin to extract certain indiscrete yeomen from...
Pictures. Gainsborough's portrait of a young girl in a blue dress with flowers in her hands, flowers in her lap, and a face like a dim sleepy flower, was started at $1,500, raised by three bidders in fast cuts to $20,000, bought by Messrs. Scott & Fowls, dealers. Four more Gainsboroughs were sold for a total of $7,900. Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts paid $31,000 for a picture of a girl and some red herrings by Millais.* Goya's portrait of Pepe Illo, a bullfighter of Madrid, brought $25,000. On the third...
...From Rome he brought and erected in his Pittsburgh administration building a fountain. Ivory collecting was a pleasant avocation. His gathering contained 1,300 carved pieces, one of the few of its kind in the U. S. In 1919 he died, 25 years after the death of the Irish girl, Sallie Sloan Young, whom he married the year he set up in business for himself...