Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...many weeks, the Presidency of Bombay has echoed the demands of the people, particularly of the Parsis,* for British justice. The echo is a reverberation of the nautch (dancing) girl affair: A nautch girl, member of the Maharaja of Indore's harem, escaped from Indore, a sovereign Hindu state, following the murder of her baby, and sought the protection of a wealthy Parsi merchant of Bombay. This was a supreme affront to the Maharaja's "izzet" (caste honor). He held out every inducement to the girl to return, but she preferred her merchant and counted on the additional...
Wild Birds. Another page torn from the hungry innocent existence of the prairies is this play, which won some sort of prize at the University of California. An orphan girl and a runaway boy on a farm fall rather inevitably into each other's arms. They attempt to run away from the brutal farmer, are hauled back. The girl finds herself about to have a child. The farmer beats the boy to death with a bull whip. The girl jumps into a well...
Ruint. Pondering over this title, one stumbles on the truth-"ruint" is what happens to a girl when she gets careless. That's how they pronounce it in the Carolina mountains. This particular girl was careless enough to get herself kissed on the lips by a vagrant Northern millionaire. Thereupon, the simple village menfolk consider her disgraced and rally round to marry her and reinsure her honor. Shotguns and tar are meted out to the unhappy Northerner. A rope is around his neck when the lady, having kissed, decides to tell...
...long, lean, smiling chorus girl who is called W. R. Wister '27, and who is the son of Owen Wister, who wrote the first of the Pudding's musical comedies, "Dido and Aeneas". Since then Mr. Wister has written a number of other things, but none of more moment...
...front page. This last year, Bernarr Macfadden's Physical Culture featured him. For this health and sex publication, the Judge wrote a series on The Revolt of Modern Youth, in which he exposed the "code of the flapper world." In it he told the story of an innocent girl whose family had never told her anything, who wanted experience, who found it. "The institution of marriage should be tended?it is allowed to grow like a weed in a neglected garden...