Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...asked them where they lived. They eyed me like small animals waiting to spring but not daring. . . . A small blue-eyed girl wearing a fragment of an army overcoat over a jute sack cut short above her thin bare legs, said amiably...
...lift their voices to welcome the prodigy was Edwin Markham, Honorary President of the Poetry Society of America. Poet Markham is old; a snow white beard depends from his chin; perhaps because his long experience has rendered him dubious of prodigies, he examined the little Crane girl's poems with critical attention. Of The Janitor's Boy he said nothing. But last week, when he read her second volume, Lava Lane, he hinted a courteous skepticism. Last week he said to a newspaper reporter...
...seems impossible to me that a girl so immature could have written these poems. They are beyond the powers of a girl of twelve. The sophisticated viewpoint of sex . . . knowledge of history and archeology found in these pages place them beyond the reach of any juvenile mind...
...Brooklyn rushed reporters. They interviewed the prodigy-a spindling girl of twelve, physically immature, with solemn eyes, a quick tongue, a shrill treble voice. Her father explained how inspiration comes...
...specimen: "It [the Jordan 'Playboy' Roadster] is a wonderful companion for a wonderful girl and a wonderful boy. . . . It's a shame to call it a roadster. . . . This brawny thing with the vigor of boyhood and morning...