Word: janes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Coming back to his room, he opened the envelope cautiously. Out fell a two-page typewritten letter and a lot of enclosures from the Jane Fuller Club announcing that it could "secure just the kind of wife you want in a very short time." The letter ended with the command that Vag "act today! Why besitate? Satisfaction guaranteed...
...space below describe the kind of a lady you desire for a life companion and we will attend to the matter at once." Just like that! But who was this Jane Fuller, this dictator of the laws of nature? Should Vag, the cream of something or other, entrust his marital happiness to some unknown goddess in Milwaukee? No! And as he strode about the room in blustering defiance, a Great Idea came to him. The Government, that great paternal being, that impartial regulator of everything it can get its hands on, the Government should decide whom he should marry...
Charlie got in Shirley Temple's curls once, too. "McCarthy," said Bergen, "I want you to meet the sweetest little girl on the screen." Charlie looked down archly from his perch on Bergen's knee. "Not Jane Withers!" he chuckled...
...record includes the consequences of a cold the baby catches because he has to sleep in the dining room; the disaster caused when a maid-of-all-work leaves in the midst of a dinner party; the results of John Mason's request for a raise; difficulties between Jane and her mother-in-law; a New Year's Eve quarrel between John and Jane. The climax, such as it is, arrives when their infant son wrinkles his face with boredom and refuses to say Daddy. At this point John and Jane Mason have ceased to be merely important...
...senior) according to their ability. At the national championships last week only five women, all under 21, were expert enough to compete for the women's senior title: Boston's Joan Tozzer and Polly Blodgett, Manhattan's Charlotte Walther and Audrey Peppe and Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn...