Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would they be failures? In a previous article the writer stated that there are certain groups in Harvard College, among which is the one with the social complex. This group will support college dances either through a spirit of tradition or a desire to let the "girl back home" get a view of Harvard College glory. The Freshman Jubilees and the Junior Proms are indeed sorry specimens of Harvard glory...
...They are! They are!" cried the dancing-eyed girl. "We named them 'specially, and I knew you'd guess...
...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...
Locker room wit is not out of place in Follow Thru for the plot concerns golf; its hero is a young professional, his romance begins when he agrees to give lessons to a pretty girl and comes to its proper conclusion when she beats a rival in love and .port. The story winds happily about the verandas, hallways, fairways and even the ladies' dressing room in an Elysian country club, encouraged by nymphs of whom none have passed the age of indiscretion, all dancing to Henderson, Brown & de Sylvan melodies...
...half ago, in the most pompous and expensive wedding ever arranged in Hollywood, she was married to Rod La Rocque. The Shopworn Angel is the silly title of a sophisticated and entertaining story about a Texas rookie who is always being kidded because he has no nerve with girls. When a Manhattan policeman stops a Rolls-Royce and tells the chauffeur to take the soldier to the ferry, the Texan, in the tonneau, finds that his big feet encounter the slippers of an attractive showgirl. He brags to his friends about his date and writes for the girl...