Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...possessed the courage of her convictions, and one of these convictions was concerning the free and unfettered liberty of the American girl...
...Master of the Inn. In a rather complicate and generally unconvincing contraption the gospel of doing good to others does not impress. The master in point had been disappointed in love and was healing his own wound by taking care of others of the world's unfortunates. The girl he loved and her erratic husband were numbered in this considerable category. He cured them both and returned them to their happiness with no apparent purpose except the proverbially reciprocal reward of virtue...
...Charles XII, boy king of Sweden, beats Peter on the battlefield. In the retreat, a Russian general takes a girl, Katharina, whom later he gives to Peter. Peter likes her. He sends the Tsarina to a nunnery...
...dream of one woman, his lust for another, need of a third?these are his nakedness. A son,' conceived in drunkenness and evil, had stagnated in the murk of a coal mine for 13 years with but two gleams of light?the dream of a girl he had loved in boyhood, and the memory of a year spent convalescing from illness on an uncle's farm. Unexpectedly the farm was bequeathed to him. With his dull wife and the bitter memory of a stillborn son, he went to the land. He grew ambitious, fiery. Only his timid wife...
Last week Sir Basil Thomson, now 64 years of age, was arraigned in a London police court on the incredible charge of having misconducted himself with a young girl in Hyde Park. The more inflammatory despatches did not hesitate to link mention of the crime of rape with the arrest. Stolid Englishmen were literally aghast at what seemed to be a national scandal...