Word: girls
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Students will have full care of their rooms and will be responsible for increased amounts of pantry work, bell duty, and table-waiting. Under last year's program, girls handled three hours' worth of bells and kitchen duty weekly. This year the maximum duty for each girl will be five hours per week and will run somewhat less in the larger halls...
...punch each other interminably, this is for you. The protagonist of Ham Fisher's fair-haired comic strip is played by one Joe Kirkwood Jr., who says few words and keeps pretty much to himself. Mr. Kirkwood has recently been in court regarding the alleged paternity of a Worcester girl's small children, and his mindprobably was on other things when he made the movie...
Beginning with the rusty old excuse of a fire at sea, Lagoon beaches two little British tykes, aged seven and eight, on a deserted, gorgeously Technicolored island. Twelve years later, the girl (Jean Simmons) and boy (Donald Houston) are still trying to thumb a ride back to civilization. Meanwhile they have put together an attractive, cabana-type dwelling in a palm tree, a charming dinner set out of coconut shells and assorted Polynesian oddments, and some fetching tree-bark sarongs for Jean. Unfortunately for the audience, the young couple has long since run out of anything interesting to talk about...
Since Jerry's fiancee never walks on stage, readers get no great chance to weigh the matter for themselves. They will have to take Author Gallico's sentimental word for it that a plain Patches in R.A.F. blue is preferable to a Long Island girl in a camel's-hair coat, any old day. On the basis of advance orders for The Lonely from U.S. bookdealers, the publishing trade confidently expects that U.S. women will be falling all over themselves this fall to buy the book, and find out why in the world Gallico thinks so. Male...
...addition to the dining and sitting rooms, the first floor contains a package room, where each resident will have a personal cubby hole; a reception room, where visitors will have a comfortable place to wait while the girl upstairs finishes "combing her hair"; a "gentleman's room" not to be confused with a "men's room"; and the usual entrance-drawing room which features a fireplace at each end. Finishing off the first floor are the apartments of Miss Edith L. Annin, Resident Head, and Miss Mary C. Small, Dean of Social Activities. An extra apartment also has been constructed...