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Word: girls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paying sixpence one was entitled to guess the names of a boy doll and a girl doll; and if one guessed both names correctly one might take the midgets home. Clearly this was no "lottery," this was not "gambling," and so Mrs. Baldwin took a sixpence from her purse and laid it charitably on the counter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Divine Providence! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Baldwin!" cried the attendant at the doll booth, "You must guess. Please, you really must!" and the eyes of the attendant, a blooming, wholesome girl, twinkled, danced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Divine Providence! | 1/21/1929 | See Source »

...Wellesley girl hears a record played in the room next door, she buys a record of a different sort. This does not, however, prove Wellesley girls are miserly. They merely dislike to own anything similar to another's possession...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Gobbles Smooth Syncopation While Harvard Exercise Varied Taste--Beethoven, Ted Lewis Mingle | 1/19/1929 | See Source »

Only her husband's solicitor knows this and when it appears that the bastard, now grown into a beautiful girl, is about to marry a handsome member of the Dedlock clan, he croaks his intention of squealing. He has gained his information by the aid of Hortense, a maid, who has good sense and a bad temper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

Captain Swagger. Starring Rod La Rocque, this unlikely story of War heroes after the War, one a German Baron, the other an amateur bandit fast becoming professional, is happily without dialog. There is some good dancing by the doublers for Swagger and his girl who are supposed to be Russian entertainers in a high-grade night club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jan. 14, 1929 | 1/14/1929 | See Source »

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