Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
...Glass Slipper. Think of Cinderella if her dream had not come true. Think of Cinderella in the guise of a dreamy servant girl of Budapest; in love with a grey-haired prince, who scolded her cruelly and ate potatoes with his knife. Think finally of Cinderella serving at his wedding to a greedy old harridan with money. Under such circumstances Cinderella might have taken to the streets. Molnar's did. There was a final act in a police court, in which the beauty and the poignancy of her suffering grew to a glowing climax...
...Conn. Mr. Hopper's five former wives were named respectively Ella, Ida, Edna, Nella, Ella. Edna, still billed in vaudeville as "Edna Wallace Hopper" is now advertising, at 50? and $1.00 a box, "the beauty aids which keep me at my grand old age (51) looking like a girl." In 1881 Comedian Hopper appeared in a confection labeled: One Hundred Wives...
...recent issue the Lampoon published an alleged joke, in which, over the legend, "The Only examination which a Radcliffe girl can't pass," was portrayed a young lady looking into a mirror...
...learned: An Omaha boy, aged 13, after reading and liking Tom Sawyer, had declared: "But yet I think it is one of the worst books for boys in their mature age." Of Evangeline, said a 14-year blade of Quincy, Mass.: "It doesn't seem possible that a girl would walk so many miles for her beau when now a girl wouldn't walk one mile...