Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fantastic novel) liberates an evil genie, four thousand years old, from captivity in the brazen receptacle. The liberator, an impoverished young architect, is promptly offered his heart's desire by the relieved genie. He wishes the contract on a certain building and a life contract with a certain girl. By various and wonderful means these wishes are fulfilled...
...than lawyers." Later he settled in Chicago, practicing law and writing, in his spare time, for out-of-doors periodicals. The Mississippi Bubble made his first real success in the literary field?other books include The Story of the Cowboy, (praised by Theodore Roosevelt), The Man Next Door, The Girl at the Halfway House and The Covered Wagon, which, in its movie incarnation, gave him, perhaps, his widest audience...
Thomas Seltzer, publisher of A Young Girl's Diary and Casanova's Homecoming, was indicted by the Supreme Court Grand Jury (New York) for publication of obscene matter...
...Young Girl's Diary, anonymous, is not a novel, but the diary of an anonymous German fraulein a little before and after the age of puberty. As a pathological and psychological document it is of some importance?it should certainly impress on anybody who reads it the importance of proper sex education for the young? but the average reader will find it extremely tedious?a tedium only occasionally relieved by passages of unconscious humor. "Excitement" in it is nil and it is difficult to imagine any one obtaining even a modicum of sensuous delight from its gray pages. The only...
...Earl of Northesk: "One of my uncles, when interviewed in London by the Chicago Tribune concerning my marriage to Jessica Brown, former Follies girl, said: 'I am afraid it is only too true...