Word: schoolgirl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isabella Greenway, who succeeded Budget Director Lewis Douglas as Arizona's lone Representative, fought on the floor for the project of her schoolgirl friend at whose wedding she was a bridesmaid. Cried Congresswoman Greenway: "This is a far broader issue than a furniture factory, the leading lady of the land, or the purchase of one particular commodity. . . . We are well into the experiment of decentralization of wealth, and it has to be accompanied with the decentralization of industry. . . . There are 14 of these experiments going on in the U. S. today. . . . Private industry, to my absolute knowledge, was begged...
Eight Girls in a Boat (Paramount). This picture is not, as advertisements might suggest, a musical comedy about bathing beauties. It is a U. S. imitation of Maedchen in Uniform, showing what happens to Christa (Dorothy Wilson), a schoolgirl who has a romance with a chemistry student (Douglass Montgomery) in a nearby college. She becomes pregnant. As soon as she reveals this fact to her classmates and teachers, Christa loses her position as stroke of the school crew but becomes such a celebrity among her classmates that she scarcely minds her demotion. Her father (Walter Connolly) is angry...
Last week Erwin, Wasey & Co. Inc. advertising agency supplied the missing facts about Jim & Minny. In 1902 Minny Hanff, 17, a buxom Manhattan schoolgirl, began selling verses and children's stories to newspapers. When Hecker H-O Co., makers of Force, held an advertising contest, Minny conceived the character of Sunny Jim, submitted jingles about him. The company paid her $100 for the idea, ordered more verses. Minny got her friend Dorothy Ficken, 16, to draw pictures of Sunny Jim. For a year they were kept busy. Then, to carry out a $1,000,000 advertising program, artists...
...cotton planter named Murray Forbes Smith at Mobile, was born this daughter Alva. Not every young lady from Alabama went to school in France. And not every U. S. schoolgirl in France met William Kissam Vanderbilt. But somehow, strong-chinned Alva Smith did. What was more she married Vanderbilt in Manhattan when she was 21. From then on, plump, ambitious, fabulously energetic Alva Vanderbilt was to find that her successive environments were always just a little too confining. The ever-present temptation was to burst out of them as she would an over-snug bodice...
...Emilia Onda) tries to turn out steel women to match Prussia's iron men by bundling the little girls in heavy uniforms, marching them in columns up & down long winding stairs, starving, shadowing, suppressing them. At night they weep for loneliness; they exploit any teacher's kindness into a schoolgirl "crush"; on a rare party they go half-mad with sudden unrestraint. Manuela, after a play in which she has starred, drinks several glasses of the school punch, staggers to the platform and announces that she loves a particular teacher, that the Fraulein (Dorothea Wieck) has given her a chemise...