Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nukitch she was the prettiest girl in all the world. Then spiteful villagers came back from Zagreb with news that they had seen girls who made Angjelija look homely by comparison. Pretty Angjelija wrote a note saying that she did not want to live in a world that held prettier girls, hanged herself...
...Glory be!" cried a delighted char, "she's prettier than the Duchess of York!" and this impression seemed to be general. Stepping into a big Daimler, George and Marina held hands on the short drive to St. James's Palace, waved their free hands at a surging populace which pelted flowers and roared "Welcome our Princess!" until excited Marina was seen to brush tears of joy from her eyes...
Crown Prince Mihai of Rumania arrived in Venice to vacation with his mother, Princess Helen. Said 12-year-old Mihai: "You are prettier than ever Mother...
...Schmidt. She did not pretend to be in the same class with Mollie Walsh, the Wonder Girl of White Pass Trail, who ran a beanery and was sworn to be as morally clean as the snow that fell on her tent. Sweet Marie was a dance hall girl and prettier than most. When she lifted her plaintive voice in song, she could coax more nuggets out of sourdoughs in one night than Deadeye Olga, Yukon Lucy or Moosehide Kate could in a month...
...There were other, more important complications. First was Marty, who had loved Julian for a long time but not quite enough to let him seduce her. It was on a weekend at her aristocratically shabby farm that Julian met complication No. 2. Ann was Marty's cousin, but prettier and much bolder. She liked Julian right away, never bothered her unscrupulous head about whether she ought to invite him into her bedroom. Marty found out about their carryings-on and went wild, but Julian hardly cared. About the time he was fired from college Ann wrote...