Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what else can one speak on such a day? Fannie Hurst, not wanting to be photographed, though looking quite as radiant as usual, told me that she has chosen Lummucks as the title of her new novel−the one which is a study of a foreign born servant girl working in America. George Middleton, the playwright, excited because of the difficulties between the Actor's Equity Association and the theatrical managers, and concerned for fear the poor author would fall in ruins between them: Here, too, Jesse Lynch Williams, a compiler of Why Not? and Why Marry? Clayton...
...held by them that he had caused the drought by offering her violence. His father, the chief of the tribe, consented to his son's death. When the case was tried in the government courts the tribesmen produced the rain goddess incarnated in a beautiful girl. She did not lower her dignity by speaking to mortals, and her henchmen were convicted...
Have you an average high-school boy or girl in your home? If yon have, do you know that the boy goes to the movies 1.23 times a week?the girl 1.05 times per hebdomadary segment? Never suspected it, did you? That is to say, you may have known about the one time, but as for the decimal fractions?well, it's wonderful what those young people are able to put over on the oldsters...
...Action, Douglas Mc-Lean finds himself confronted with a lovely girl whom he would wed if she would let him. Her objection lies in the fact that he is one of those unfortunate mortals who are worthless except for two or three million dollars. Accordingly he sets out to make himself a man despite the money. The ensuing series of adventures are pleasantly entertaining...
...Story.* Guy Plummer was the brightest boy in Junction City; Bee Chew, the prettiest and most interesting girl. Guy's father was a minister and poor, while Lawyer Chew lived in the only " mansion " in town and preferred Robert Ingersoll to Henry Ward Beecher?but that didn't make any difference to Guy and Bee. They quoted Browning and Henley to each other and thought the biggest thing in life must be to grow old together, like the picture in the advertising calendar of the stately old man and the silver-haired lady, holding hands and smiling...