Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could you or any girl from around here hope to attract such a man?" asked the mothers of Roghudi gloomily. "If he ever chooses, it will be one from outside, one who knows the ways of the world and can read newspapers, as he does." Sadly aware of their own drawbacks, the rustic daughters of Roghudi could only sigh, and some among them hope that a day would come when handsome, dark-eyed Mayor Pietro Nucera might forget himself and take them by violence. In the harsh code of justice on the slopes of Aspromonte, the Harsh Mountains...
Smoke Rings. One look at her and the young mayor was smitten with a disease compounded of love and a paralyzing bashfulness. Before this gentle girl, who could both read and write, the dashing romantic was unable to speak a word. Desperate, he raced off to the town of Reggio Calabria to ask the advice of some more experienced guappi. "Appeal to her feminine curiosity," they suggested, and told him a few tricks of the trade. After that, Pietro, in the company of two friends, took up a stand opposite Francesca's door, puffing cigarettes in an urbane manner...
...year Pietro did nothing. Then he approached bluntly and announced: "I have decided I want to marry you." "I am sorry," said Francesca. "It cannot be." Stupefied, the mayor went to his uncle the priest. "I don't understand," he said. "How could any girl refuse?" The old priest inhaled a vast nostrilful of snuff. "Women," he said at last, "don't like to be wooed. They like to be conquered...
Harriet saw. In Paris she staked out a claim to her private gold mine-a cosmetic cream that she claimed was invented for Madame Recamier. a premature career girl of the Napoleonic era. In due course, Harriet returned to the U.S. with her saucer of cream. It was a business triumph but a personal disaster. Along the way she had committed her daughter Margaret to the care of a frenetic novelist and proprietor of a finishing school named Blanche Willis Howard, who became The False Friend Who Poisoned Her Daughter's Mind Against Her Mother. She herself fell under...
First prize in graphic arts rightly went to Leonard Baskin for his superb "Shofar Prayer." Other awards went to William Georgenes, Jane Stouffer and Donald Kelley, the last outstanding for his "Priscilla." In sculpture, first prize went to Harold Tovish's good "Head of a Girl," with honorable mention to William Martin's striking "Stalking Bird." I liked George Aaron's "Jeremiah" and Peter Abate's "Youth and His Dreams" most...