Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...baby girl was born in a London subway train. Much discussion arose as to the name that should be given. Some suggested four names beginning with T.U.B.E., some Louise Baker after the Bakerloo Railway, others Jocelyn, as she was born in the rush hour...
Friday afternoons, when school-boys and girls wiped off their slates and listened to faltering eulogies on Washington and Lincoln, are still vivid memories to many of the present generation; but the golden traditions which were then pleasantly learned have withstood the ravages of time little better than the familiar red schoolhouse. Modern historians have scorned to repeat the charming stories of Pocahontas rescue and the cherry tree incident, and have instead dug up English graveyards to find the skeleton of the Indian girl and searched through old jockets to discover whether or not Washington's hair was really...
They show us a girl who must decide between staying at home, seeking an operatic career in Paris, and marrying either for money or love. By the aid of that dear old piece of hokum--a crystal globe--they take their heroine through ten breath-taking scenes and several compromising situations to show her the probable results of her different choices. Towards the end, they evidently run out of scenery and words, for they fail to photograph her after she has married the hero. We think this might have been the worst solution of all, although the playwrights, not sharing...
...rival attraction to Samborski's slugging at the ball game yesterday was in the press stand, where Billy B. Van, comedian in "The Dream Girl" at the Wilbur Theatre, was broadcasting the story of the contest to radio fans through Station WNAC, the Shepard Stores. His witty comments drew to the spot a large circle of spectators, who chortled with glee when the comedian seriously made through the microphone such remarks as "Hammond knocks a foul into the grandstand.... It hits a man in an empty seat", and "The umpire calls a balk, Williams demands a recount... The umpire wins...
...fact, the whole production, coming after Miss Taylor's sunny California radiance, seems bathed in a quiet, phosphorescent glow. Miss Keener, in endeavoring to portray the little Irish-American girl who-flung into the center of a snobbish English household-shows up its caddishness and wins a handsome Cholly-boy for herself, handles her part with kid gloves...