Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Franz Romer of Rosenheim, Bavaria, arrived last week at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands. He had left Lisbon, Portugal, on March 3, alone in a 21-foot collapsible rowboat. Sound of mind and body, he expects to continue rowing until he reaches the U. S., wins a prize...
Wanted. A virgin from Louisiana comes to Manhattan to see about her inheritance. People want to help her, but they also want to help her in a manner ill befitting a virgin from Louisiana. Repulsing them, she finds temporary shelter in a vacant Park Avenue apartment, at the suggestion of a Negro maid who knows her own Negro maid. Jewels are stolen from the apartment. The owners unexpectedly return from Europe. The virgin is taken to jail. Things look bad, but they are set to rights and the virgin gets a husband in the scion of the Park Avenue owners...
Recently ten small tots ran prattling to parents, begged permission to go into the woods with "Uncle José" who had promised to shoot pigeons and then tell stories. "You may go with José," smiled many a parent, adding piously, "May the Blessed Virgin go with...
...TOLERANCE-tolerance of the Book, he appeared to mean. At this crux of debate, the battle of prayers-still raging across the street in Westminster Abbey-reached a climax of Evangelical appeals to the Father, Son and Holy Ghost;* while Anglo-Catholics did not scruple to additionally beseech the Virgin Mary, her mother St. Anne, and many another saint...
ANYONE who is able to find tongues in trees, books, in the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything may derive some pleasure from "Dead Lovers Are Faithful Lovers." Likewise those who agreed with James Branch Cabell that "The Hard-boiled Virgin" is "the most profound book yet written by any American woman" may condone Miss Newman's latest tour de force as one of the minor sins of genius. To the rest of the public, including this reader, however, this new novel is as unreadable as the former one; the author has possibly proved that dead lovers...