Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: I wish to protest and protest strongly against such antics on the part of the Prince of Wales as you describe in your issue of Nov. 2. No decent young man dresses himself up in girl's clothes and appears in a farce called The Bathroom Door. There are enough scatter-brained girls who call themselves " vamps" without the Prince making a "Royal Vamp" of himself. I visited England last year and want to say that a great many people in London know him for what he is. Too many Americans think he is a sweet, babyfaced, "innocent...
...Coolidge attended a luncheon given by the Girl Scouts at "Little House," scout headquarters in Washington. The pièce de resistance was a Vermont turkey, raised, transported, cooked and served by Leona Baldwin, 13, scout of Montpelier, Vt., who afterwards wept in excitement...
...woman running for Alderman of the 15th District and between runs preparing for the début of a daughter! Yet the dance at which Sally Pratt will make her bow to society on December the Thirteenth will be as spiffy as the party given for any other girl launched during the holidays...
Presently the curtain rises again on the small lobby of the Commercial House in Herrington. The girl an ingenue, well played by Miss Mayo Methot, has been taken under the wing of the proprietress, while the quondam hobo who saved the former and has since fellen in love with her, has found a job and sufficient prospects for an early marriage. Enter the deacon with as smooth a piety as his legerdemain at cards. The audience, as the action proceeds to draw forth an unquestionably real and homely set of characters, is at a loss to know what to expect...
...lack of dramatic climax. The second and third acts hold the attention remarkably. The suave scheming deacon, a lovable hypocrite and generous to a fault, is pivot; and Mr. Berton Churchill acts his sanctimonious role to perfection, while with nimble wit and deft fingers he wins himself, the girl, the hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish...