Word: gretchen
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...Devil!" screamed the mother of one of the young women at the richly dressed old woman. "You Vampire! Trying to make white slaves out of honest girls! I won't let you take my Gretchen to Buenos Aires...
Cried apple-cheeked Gretchen: "Please, mother! Please, Please, PLEASE!! You don't understand. We're not 'white slaves' or anything so silly. We're going to Buenos Aires to dance in the best cafe, and we've all got contracts! It's perfectly all right...
...parents, relatives and friends of seven of the 15 girls would not believe that everything is all right. "Help, help, police!" they cried, but they got no help, and with a derisive toot the locomotive began to puff and chuff. Gretchen and the other young women waved goodbye, and the richly dressed old woman sprinkled eau de cologne on her handkerchief, dabbed her forehead. At Hamburg, like the watchful and virtuous chaperone of a bevy of schoolgirls, she shepherded her 15 charges aboard the spick-and-span steamer Eubee...
...fleet of taxicabs. One night last week on Berlin's Broadway-the garish and blazing Kurfursten-Damm-cruising crooks met honest, conventioning Hamburgers, quarreled, fought with guns and knives. It appeared that the shooting and knifing had begun-as such things will-with a wench, buxom Gretchen Schmaltz. Originally Fraulein Schmaltz appeared to have favored and sipped beer with a tuxedoed Ever Loyal. When he excused himself for a moment, Gretchen responded to the ogle of a dashing old Hamburger Journeyman, clapped his broad black hat upon her head, called for more beer and presently begged...
...night, is as follows, F. K. Smith '30, R. R. Wallstein '32, Alice Cobb, Gloria Braggiotti, Patricia Stevenson, M. D. T. Manduley '32, G. W. Harrington '30. H. G. Meyer '30, M. P. Smith '32, P. S. Davis '30, N. P. Lowenstein 1G.B., F. A. Pickard '29, Mary Crandon, Gretchen Blair, Helen Shaw, Lily Jones, Sally Sherburne, H. C. Friend 31, C. L. Fox ocC., Harold Adamson '32, J. W. Frick '31, J. M. Sargent '31, L. C. Winter...