Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blackbird. Limehouse naturally gives Lon Chaney a chance to disguise himself with grotesquerie well calculated to frighten little children. Part of the time he is a benevolent bishop. Renee Adoree, the French girl of The Big Parade, is the heroine, capably enough. Mr. Chaney is always good, and his pictures are never watered with too obvious and too usual melodramatic sentiment...
Tuesday. Won three easy matches in the Gallia tournament?one in the singles against a little girl named Bendit (6-1, 6-0) and two in the mixed doubles. Jack Hilliard (British) was my partner. Quite attractive, but he wore ugly shoes. The reporters came up. I wouldn't let them photograph me because I had on my oldest sweater and I just told them the truth about it. "Gentlemen," I said, "don't take my photograph today. Wait until Wednesday. I am getting some new French dresses made and they will be delivered Wednesday. I want my California friends...
...greeting were inspired by one of the earliest and most successful advertising campaigns ever conducted. Another clever publicist once started every one saying, "Have you a little fairy in your home?" And once upon a time, the pinnacle of witty suggestion could be scaled by pointing at a pretty girl, a dashing yacht or a sore throat and ejaculating, "Ask the man who owns...
...Wait, Sally," and turning to us Phil continued, "What do you think this girl's done? All morning I've been trying to buy her a present. I tried earrings, brooches, beads, laces, lingerie, perfume and everything else this sacred city holds. Not a thing would she take until she got to a drug store, and then she made me go in and buy her four cakes of Ivory Soap...
Benito Himself. Il Duce's wife and children are not so much as mentioned, but that his youth was at one time scarcely celibate is delicately implied by referring to "the blond mane of a young Russian girl" who called him "Benitouchka," and by a remark about the time when "he lived in a brolanda kept by a baccana. These are not really Italian words but coinages of our Italian emigrants, meaning a lodging house of the humblest kind kept by an attractive young woman...