Word: girls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...little restaurant to see each other was a consuming desire to play with their money directly, on the turn of a card, the fall of dice. Between Central Park and 42nd Street, all around the little restaurant, is a forest of "broadminded" hotels where a man can keep a girl or a case of liquor or organize a fairly professional gambling game. Word would go to the little restaurant : "Room such-and-such, Hotel so-and-so." The dapper gentlemen played only among themselves, or with sports like themselves who would blow in from other big cities to "take that...
...Japanese girl of today is much larger and stronger than the women of my generation. My own daughter, who is 14 years old, will be taller than either her father or myself, and I feel certain that this is due to her enthusiastic entrance into all sports. In Japan the girls are showing enthusiasm for tennis, basketball, swimming and pole vaulting. Perhaps the most remarkable spectacle of these days is to see a party of Japanese girls climbing Mount Fiji. Ten or fifteen years ago this was unheard...
...famed Whoops Sisters, a pair of blithe Victorian crones who swept with muffs and bonnets about the city, never had their shoes off while the fleet was in, stood behind a nude statue in a museum and peered around for a front view crying WHOOPS! IT'S A GIRL! Last year these fantastic scare crows began to disappear. Their departure was hastened by a dull novel written about them by their creator. Since then Artist Arno has kept his satire closer to reality...
...even Lenore Ulric is a less rare but more valuable one. When he watched Lenore Ulric display her manikinetic tricks to Satan's jury, Producer Belasco must have smiled to himself, for it was he, not "Dr. Magister," who taught her how to do them. A little girl from Minnesota who had played in stock in Milwaukee, she came to Manhattan and played in The Mark of the Beast. After that, Belasco got her and has had her ever since. Tiger Rose, in 1917, made her very famous; in Kiki, one of the Dean's most profitable ventures...
...American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...