Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...somewhat similar reasons I am glad to speak at the Union. No audience is easier to amuse than a well-fed one. And no girl is more liable to appreciate you than one who has just eaten, at your expense. Then, too, I can become acquainted without saying anything...
Helen beats Margaret by a neck as the most popular girl at the Junior Prom on tomorrow evening. Tabulations of the 128 different girls names which the members of 1926 have chosen as befitting the greatest dance of the year, give Helen 22 votes to 21 for Margaret. Dorothy won third place in the poll where the Juniors unwittingly voted with 16 choices...
Only two points gave Boston a close victory over Wellesley as the place where girls grow best. The members of the class showed as great variety in their choice of location for their partners as they did in the choice of names. From Detroit to Miami, the girls will represent nearly every State in the East. Wellesley is by far the most favored girl's college. 1926 will bring 48 partners from its sheltering walls to Memorial Hall tomorrow night. Other mstitutions which will be represented at the From include Vassar, Smith, Bryn Mawr, Jackson, and Radcliffe...
Keats, left alone, went to live with his friend Charles Brown in Hampstead, next door to a certain Mrs. Brawne "whose daughter senior," he wrote, "is, I think, beautiful and elegant, graceful, silly, fashionable and strange." He fell in love with this girl at once, she with him. Though circumstances?the increasing number of his sore throats, his intentness on his work, his need of money?kept them much apart, Keats' love for Fanny Brawne grew until it absorbed his life. One night, he rode on a stagecoach without his greatcoat, coughed a bright stain into his bedsheets. "I know...
Fanny Brawne, proves Miss Lowell, was far from the shallow, flippant, witless girl that worshipers of Keats have been pleased to style her. That she had intelligence the author infers from certain letters (never examined by any other biographer) written by Fannie Brawne to Keats' sister after his death: "Let us admit, once and for all, that Keats made a most uneasy lover. . . . It would have been small wonder if Fanny Brawne occasionally asked herself whether this exacting and excitable young man could make any woman really happy...