Word: prettier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...closing, he observed, "The biggest difference I've noticed between Harvard and Chicago is that the girls are much prettier here. Is that too wicked for a bachelor like...
...questionnaires in Urdu, English and Bengali, last week reported six to one for reform. Henceforth, it recommended, Pakistani males should get permission for second marriages from special new courts of matrimony; they should prove themselves able to support two families; they should not marry again "merely ... to marry a prettier or younger woman." The commission added that child marriages and the sale of brides should be outlawed, and that women and men should have equal rights of divorce. As of now, Pakistanis can divorce their wives in Islamic fashion by saying "I divorce thee" three times in their presence...
...Beaux Arts, was coldly blocked. Critics labeled her early work "decadent" and "ugly." After World War I, she changed her style, was later described as the only considerable figure who painted like a woman. ("Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier...
...Astronomer Woolley had also given courage to other conservatives. Said the Spectator's Columnist "Pharos": "I wish the Astronomer Royal had gone a little further and told them to take up model yachting instead. That is a much prettier pastime than dreaming about going to Mars with a goldfish bowl over one's head and a superconcentrated food lozenge under the tongue...
...want to go out with those old girls and spend all that money." Finally, however, he began dating Ann Huffines. On their first date, says Joe, they "talked about the weather, and I liked the way she talked. I've always knowed there was other girls prettier somewhat than she is, but I found out beauty is only skin deep. I know she'll work with me on the farm-some girls wouldn't-and she might even go out and milk a cow." Will Ann help out with the farm correspondence and book work? Says...