Word: schoolgirls
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...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...
...flags over her lane, she kept her head turned to watch Philomena Mealing of Australia whom she beat by 5 ft. The one race that U. S. women swimmers have never done well in, the 200-metre breast stroke, went to a 16-year-old Australian schoolgirl, Clare Dennis of Sydney, who made an Olympic record of 3:06.4, a ripple ahead of little Hideko Maehata of Japan. An unbeatable U. S. team of Josephine McKim, Helen Johns. Eleanor Sayville and Helene Madison won the 400-metre relay in 4:38 (Olympic record...
Four svelte, attractive ladies and a schoolgirl were grouped in a two-page water color by Artist Carl Ericsson in last week's issue of Vogue. Most Vogue readers saw what they were supposed to see: that each of the anonymous ladies was wearing a smart hat which specially befitted her age. A few observers noted something else: some of the faces looked familiar...
...square-crowned flat sailor with quill. A rakish felt sailor for debutantes was worn by beauteous Miss Rion Fortescue of Washington, sister of Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, principal in last spring's Honolulu tragedy. Absent from the group was Editrix Carmel Snow of U. S. Vogue. The schoolgirl was a professional model...
...work I'm doing is part of an educational plan . . . which will take me some years to complete. ... In short, I believe young people when outdoors should see something besides advertisements to smoke certain brands of cigarets and to use certain soaps to return that schoolgirl complexion...