Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story. Harold Prewett met his father for the first time at the age of 21. His mother had died in childbirth and that shock, and the disappointment occasioned by Harold's not being a girl, had so disappointed Papa that he turned over Harold to Aunt Sadi, who made rather a sissy of him as a boy. Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters...
...possessive selfishness sets her to keep Jane to herself. She forbids the match. When Jane stands her ground the mother bursts into a blind fury and pours into Jane's sensitive, overwrought brain the poison tale of her inheritance among the children of the still, white satellite. The girl's mind falters under the shock, and as the final curtain falls the audience hears the purr of airplane high in the foggy night in which the lovers are climbing to the moon...
...Madrid surgeon, Torras Talarn, has developed a serum which saved a middle-aged man and a young girl in the last stages of tuberculosis. All the tuberculous patients in a Barcelona hospital will be given the treatment...
Victor Margueritte, French author: "The Paris boulevards were flooded with a 50,000-copy first edition of The Companion, a sequel I wrote to The Bachelor Girl (La Gargonne), the feminist novel for which I was expelled from the Legion of Honor. In a ' fighting preface' to The Companion I declared that my new heroine, Annik, will arouse more wrath than my previous one, Monique, as she goes further, attaining spiritual emancipation. Monique stopped halfway and got married...
...Henry Ford: "At Michigamme, Mich., women and girl resorters wearing overalls and short stockings besieged me for autographs. I publicly rebuked them, saying: 'You ladies and girls are showing very poor taste and worse judgment in coming into the town garbed as you are, without skirts or dresses. I do not want to sign my name for you and prefer not to look at you. I resent your idea of dress...