Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...face with himself as a boy. He was a freckled, active, vital kid. He is a pale and pulseless man. So the kid goes along with him for a while and stirs his spirit to the point of telling his boss to go to the devil and asking his girl to marry...
Married. Miss Helen Macfadden, 19, daughter of famed Bernarr Macfadden (publisher of True Stories, Physical Culture, Dream World, True Romances, etc.), sometime Follies girl, recently employed as a stenographer by her father at a salary of $4 per week; to Alexander Markey, 34, editor of several of the Macfadden sex magazines; in Manhattan...
...Pudukkottia, watched the amber glass tilt up and up; the linesmen, the umpires and 4,000 of the smartest women and the richest men in Europe counted her rapid swallows. Nine, ten, eleven. . . The glass was empty. Suzanne Lenglen picked up her racquet, and faced once more the girl in the cotton dress the other side...
...cells took up the liquor, courage spouted through her veins, empurpled her falcon-face. Once more her skirt began to kiss her knee from above. Once more she leapt in air?Lenglen of the rotogravure sections, idol of a nation. The girl in the cotton dress left the net for the baseline. With a cat-cunning step that seemed a little weary, a little slow, she wove from side to side, forehand, backhand, stroking hard, deftly?but not so hard, not so deftly as a moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game...
They remember how Mary Adams was afflicted with malignant inferiority as a girl in provincial little Lebanon. Her father was head hawker in the public market, a loud man with a mean soul. Her mother was doting and desperately middle class. Mary was a pretty girl stricken with panic by society's failure to come running to her feet more often than it did. Her nature preened itself and craned for admiration, thus repelling it and thrusting the girl into bitter, pitiful snobbery. She grew to despise Brand, or any one, who thought well of her. Yet so determined...