Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen got into the school -whether it involved a misstatement under oath." (Allen admitted in his series that he used a false employment record...
...Sequel is a huge repository of bloody adventure, eroticism, brutal sights and sounds, magnificent descriptions of the earth, sea and sky and all their wonders. Man's coarsest appetites and his noblest aspirations exist side by side in Odysseus, and he is as ready to seduce a simple girl by pretending to be a god as he is to admit his doubts about himself and the human condition...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. Holly Golightly, fiction's most captivating bad little good girl since Sally ("I Am a Camera") Bowles, makes her ribald, touching and irresistible debut...
Once upon a time, this nice, wholesome boy from Philadelphia--which is not a wicked place--went to Hollywood because he thought he could sing. He couldn't sing very well, but nice wholesome boys were in fashion and he was a big success. He met a nice, wholesome girl who was a big success too, and they got married, and the tabloid editors were very happy...
...while, the boy (who was called Edward) and the girl (who was called Deborah) propered; they had children. But Hollywood is a wicked place, and soon the nice, wholesome boy began to grow less nice and less wholesome. A friend died, and Edward, like the nice, wholesome boy he once was, tried to console the widow. Edward had become very good at this sort of thing since coming to Hollywood and he did it very well indeed. Soon the widow--who had been in Hollywood too long to be nice and wholesome--was merry, and so was Edward. Deborah, however...