Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...South Boston butcher's son, Jesse Pomeroy began a life of brief but terrible crime at 13, when he was sent to a reform school for torturing little children. Upon his release a little boy was cruelly murdered, then a little girl. On April 22, 1874 Horace Miller, 10, was found dead in an unspeakable condition. Pomeroy, then 15, was arrested, tried, sentenced to be hanged. The whole East seethed with outrage against his sadism. After many a delay Governor Rice, because of his youth, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment. On Sept. 7, 1876 Pomeroy entered Charlestown Prison...
...during her visit to the United States forgot to mention that she never paid her motoring bill. In America the Queen's photographs were used to boost toilet creams and perfumes. Even her private diary was taken from a drawer in a dressing table by an American dancing girl and published...
...Street Girl (Radio). This first venture into the movie business of Radio Corp. of America has no air of being an experiment. The principals-Jack Oakie and Betty Compson-are experienced film actors; the plot, involving jealousy in a song-and-kiss troupe, is the main staple of the current season. The tunes are like hundreds of other tunes you've heard, and the fantastic lives, childish problems, and unreal reactions of the characters belong to a type familiar to cinema-seers since 1910. A girl from one of those Graustarkian Balkan kingdoms changes the destinies of the boys...
Harry Richman, Manhattan night club man, explained how he became engaged to Clara Bow, cinema "It" girl (TIME, July 22). Said he: "I got tough with her. Instead of saying yes I said what I pleased and won the greatest little girl that ever lived." Next day Cinemactress Bow snapped: "When I need a boss, I'll put an advertisement in the paper." She said she was not at all sure about the engagement...
...name now italicized in U. S. Tennis is Mary Greef. It would be capitalized if she had won just one more set in last week's tournament at Essex Country Club, Manchester,. Mass. Although she gave warning lately by beating Miss Sarah Palfrey, the 1928 girl's indoor champion, in straight sets at Longwood, the Essex officials did not bother to "seed" her in their tournament. As the play proceeded at Essex last week, she trounced Miss Marjorie Gladman, the 1927 Junior champion. Then she trounced Miss Eleanor Goss, No. 5 ranking player in 1927, by the tidy...