Word: quinn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Story of Gay Leonard-for it is far more her story than Dolly Quinn's - makes one of the better contemporary novels.- She is one of those astonishingly fragile moths, dusted with gold, who first distract football behemoths at col lege proms; then able young busi ness men at country club week ends; then men-about-town, reputable and otherwise. These moths cease to discriminate as their pow er and need of distraction increase. Sometimes they alight safely, their powdery gold dusts away and they become more or less plumply con tented. Other times, especially if their wits...
Jerry's charm was as shady as his sleek hair, his mesalliance and divorce, his cocktail apartment, his never mentioned publishing business (pornography). But Gay's family's intervention was not all that kept them apart the first time. There was Dolly Quinn. What remnant of decency Jerry had was in his feeling for her, a dance-hall hostess who really would not be kissed...
...There were many brilliant and capable women in the room," said retiring President Mrs. John Enos Quinn; and it was at their suggestion that she, though she had already voted as a common member, resumed her official capacity and cast another, deciding vote for Mrs. Gallagher...
...Quinn later admitted her parliamentary ignorance and error. Then she made a pronouncement to which there was none to take exception. "Before men made us voters," she said, "God made us women...
...Mayhew 27; G. A. Millikan '27 Sumner Moskovitz '27; O. E. Mulliken '27; W. E. Mydans '27; S. B. Myers '29; G. A. Orrok Jr. '27; Brooks Otis '29; J. R. Paine '27; L. J. Phillips '27; Douglass Pillinger '28; Charles Platt Jr. 27; P. J. Quinn '29; Ahraham Raum '29; C. S. Rayment '28; A. S. Reinhart '28; P. H. Rhinelander '29; J. R. Richardson '27; B. L. Rideout '27; L. J. Rittenband '29; F. W. Roberts Jr. '29; Saul Rosenweig '29; M. C. Ross '28; Abraham Rubenstein '28; L. A. Rusin '27; J. F. Ryan...