Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sheridan, who has read the book, finds it a display of sentimentality, abounding in super-adjectives, containing many plagiarisms, "the outpourings of a gushing school girl." She regrets that Marie did not write of some lovely Rumanian legend, that her Russian blood did not endow her with "some talent, mysticism and taste," that the English blood did not "add a sense of humor to her complex composition." Finally she is left pondering what on earth the book is about. Says Mrs. Sheridan: "A strange young woman named Glava rides a carrot-colored horse whose tail sweeps the ground.... She does...
...companies and secret agreements. It is a wonderful affair!" This fantastic creature is the storm-centre of startling events, in which the two adventurers become involved: They prevent Germany from reestablishing a Monarchy and starting another "Great War"; they all three fall in love with Carlotta, a beguiling Italian girl. Strange characters, mysterious world-shaking politics, amusing compli- cations,-carry an original idea through to climactic?and successful?finish...
Sued for Separation. Jack Rose, prominent vaudevillian, by his wife, Janette Lawson Rose, former Follies girl. She charges that he beat her, and once in a Chicago restaurant tore the dress from her back. In explaining the suit, Mr. Rose said: "I am a very homely man, and women take no interest...
...Garrigue Masaryk, son of Dr. Thomas Garrigue Masaryk, President of the Czecho-Slovakian Republic, like his father is to marry an American girl...
...steamer Pemaquid made its way across the waters of Penobscot Bay and came to land. John William Davis disembarked. On the dock waiting for him was Charles Dana Gibson, his host. The creator of the Gibson Girl, the publisher of Life, was there despite his physician's orders. A recent illness had required him to guard his health closely, but friendship and hospitality had temporarily overruled the art of healing...