Word: jill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...editor of the Nation, a journal which has claimed to have a greater popularity among Harvard undergraduates than any other weekly--excepting The Saturday Evening Post. So the Undesirables who invaded the realm of the Puritans roared in revels of laughter as they received the import of Jack and Jill's climb up the ancient hill. It was an important occasion and the necessity for humor was one of grave solemnity...
...Drinkwater has thickened it with some highly diverting comedy so smoothly played that it does not seem extraneous. The entire cast has been brought from London, where the play has run a year, and is considerably more than adequate. Ivor Barnard and Herbert Lomas are particularly skilful; Jill Esmond Moore, particularly decorative...
...Jack and Jill have a poultry farm, Where all the fowls walk arm in arm; They don't worry and they don't care, It's no Misery Farm down there! What's the reason? I'll tell you- Cock-a-doodle-doodle...
...JILL-E.M. Delafield-Harper ($2). Life in looser London...
JILL?E. M. Delafield?Harper ($2). The unlovely pot to which young Londoners went during and after the War is again warmed up and stirred. Jill, nubile daughter of a polite demimondaine, gets mixed in with jobless Jack Galbraith, whose time is spent begging for a pension and hoping to win public prize competitions, and his wife Doreen, who supports them by being decorative in the lobbies of small hotels. Successful Oliver Galbraith and his prim wife Cathie are the foil of respectability. They assist Jill's faithful airedale, Chips, in keeping her wholesome and girl-scoutish. Doreen finally goes...