Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your Dec. 14 issue, you say that the six little girls who made the rug for President Coolidge tied 4,404,247,000 knots in ten months. Assuming that each girl worked every minute of ten hours a day, for ten months, your figures give each girl credit for having tied 1360 (approximately) knots a minute. Really, you know...
...debaters were Mrs. Heywood Broun, who upheld the affirmative, and Mrs. J. Hartley Manners, who opposed her. Mrs Broun said: "When you are a girl of 21 or maybe 30 and get married, your past life flashes behind you as you are pronounced Mrs. So-and-So and you realize that you are 'Miss' no more. And this isn't legal, for the law says that you can keep your born name if you want...
...reduced it to celluloid with generally entertaining effect. Going over the records you will find that the same success is descernible in nearly all the important music shows brought before the camera; nothing massive and enduring, but fair fun and no blood stains. This one is about a Bowery girl who gained glory in the theatre...
...little girl, most mysteriously derived, is living at an English parsonage when the Crown Prince of Nicomedia dies. A general and a count come to claim her for the little comic opera kingdom as its heir presumptive, the daughter of the King's youngest son. For a girl in her early teens, Ernestine Sophie has admittedly a remarkable amount of poise, extraordinary insight and understanding. She likewise develops into an excellent shot with the revolver. So she goes to the intriguing little court and sets it upon its ear. The Princess finds two men who love her dearly, besides...
...have been, it seemed unnecessarily brutal to make her stand by during a cinematic thunderstorm while her brother, and the rest of the cast, took pot-shots at her. But she scrambled bravely up two or three hundred feet of precipice, as advertised, and reached her destination. The native girl did wing her once in the shoulder with a shot gun, but she struggled on and threw the bomb out of dangerous proximity. All this goes to prove that the story deals not in pearls but in cartridges. The one thing we actually liked about the picture was Robert Ames...