Word: schoolgirlisms
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...Huron, almost the entire population of 10,000 surged down to the railroad station. "South Dakota is the sunshine state, all the people here are feeling great," they chanted. A schoolgirl drum-corps accompanied the song, prompted Mrs. Coolidge to call out: "This is better than being in schoof, isn't it?" Then the crowd sang another song, a parody of the famed Gallagher-Shean melody, ending with the refrain: "Absolutely President Coolidge, South Dakota welcomes you." Pleased, the President asked for a copy of this song, received a fistful as he extended his arm from the observation...
...classmates call him "Butch." He owns a "secondhand navy pea-jacket, evidently purchased with due regard for Coolidge economy." He has a "perfect schoolgirl complexion," plus an "air of perfect boredom." He keeps a scrapbook of newspaper clippings in which his name is mentioned. He receives, from schoolgirls throughout the U. S., admiring letters. So alleged the Amherst Junior Year Book of John Coolidge. The President's son, Amherst College Junior, is himself a member of the Junior Year Book editorial board...
Midwestern parents and pedagogues have this autumn managed to raise a new pother, on the strenuous issue: What shall the well-dressed schoolgirl wear...
Engaged. Marcia Ann Gavit, Albany heiress of Anthony N. Brady; niece of John Palmer Gavit, famed writer of journalistic articles on education; to Charles Hervey Jackson Jr., grandnephew of one-time U. S. President Chester A. Arthur. Both now live in Santa Barbara, Calif., where Miss Gavit is a schoolgirl...
Some hundreds of curious-minded peasants streamed into the little town of Mosbach last week to attend the trial of Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, famed Philadelphia draft dodger, who was arrested (TIME, Feb. 22) on a charge of having seduced, three years ago, Fraulein Leisel Schmidt, Heidelberg schoolgirl, then...