Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great-grandchildren will be much more likely to stop and look at an old portrait on the stairs if it moves them to say 'What an interesting old girl she must have been,' than if it is just a pretty face. Charm lies in character...
...basilica steps. When the column's head drew up before the church, the last seminarian had not yet emerged. High above droned a squadron of airplanes, spying on the roofs for forbidden cinema cameramen. The crowd found it almost impossible to see across the vastitude. One smart girl's idea became contagious?hundreds of women raised their vanity mirrors aloft, saw the spectacle in reflection...
...boarding-school went Gabriel, into the army. Jailed by his father, shot at by his profligate mother, seduced by his sister, married by a good girl, Gabriel's troubles seemed only to begin when he met Sophie de Monnier. The 21-year-old wife of a rich but devout sexagenarian, Sophie had large, black, red-rimmed eyes. When Gabriel eloped with her, his head was declared forfeit, for rape. Yet when she was captured he returned to her side just in time to prevent her taking the poison he knew she always carried with her. After four years in separate...
...Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes to his companion ; and, though freighted by the corpse in a wolf-country, he battles his way back to the girl he loves, Hannah O'Molloy. They marry and there is a child. But the Frenchman finds his culture and cleanliness offended by her narrowness and rusticity. Then an Irishman elopes with Hannah. The Frenchman pursues them into the wilderness, is glad to find death instead...
Maurice Rostand, French author, lost a suit for plagiarism against the producers of a film The Little Match Seller which he claimed was a copy of a play he and his mother had made out of the late Hans Andersen's The Little Girl and the Matches. Besides refusing his claim, the court ordered him to pay $4,000 damages to the film producers, $600 damages to the theatre which withdrew the film when he filed his suit...