Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hurricane deck of the S. S. Leviathan in Manhattan last week stood a 15-year-old girl in a dark sailor blouse, a white canvas hat and black shoes and stockings. To the mainmast peak she, Joanna Chapman, ran up a small triangular flag picked out with the letter Y. Her father, Paul Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers...
That Miss Liberty soon will be the girl that men forget...
...bulged with spectators. In the corridors countless more pressed toward the door for the free show, while in the streets about the Federal Building thousands stood to wait for the verdict. The jury's "not guilty" loosed a raucous uproar of approval. The crowd "gave the little girl a great big hand" (her cliche...
Coquette (United Artists). In this dialog adaptation of an immensely successful stage play, Mary Pickford was faced with certain difficulties. The girl in the play is 18. Mary Pickford is known to be 36 and generally believed to be 39. The girl in-the play, emotionally mature, is a-passionate, complex personality. Mary Pickford has-created most of her reputation playing girls whose naivete was proved as thoroughly by their, actions-as by their wide-open blue eyes and the ringlets which hung, symbols of virginity, on their thin shoulders. On the stage, able young Actress Helen Hayes...
...story of a girl who leaves a beaten playwright to cast her lot with a successful author. That is all; yet in its four acts the entire drama of the struggle for expression through the written word is told. The present players do not rise to the play's heights, perhaps, but, on the other hand, they do not seek to make of the play a high-brow holiday...