Word: schoolgirl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...great lessons of fairy tales is to mind what one wishes for: one may get it. In 1895 a schoolgirl named Gladys Deacon read about the marriage of the reluctant Consuelo Vanderbilt to the Duke of Marlborough and determined that some day she too would marry well...
...Boston a couple of newlyweds sold off their incomplete sterling silver dinner service because they did not want to pay the high price to buy the missing pieces. In New York a schoolgirl sold her father's old gold bridgework to help pay her way through college; an elderly widow sold her gold jewelry piece by piece; and one woman recently traded in her gold I.U.D. In Los Angeles Dealer Schwary reported buying everything from a three-foot-high silver trophy awarded in a 1930s auto race to Vietnamese taels, ultrathin gold pieces the size of calling cards...