Word: virginities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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TIME meant Morons. A branch of the Moron family, Venezuelans, has lived at St. Thomas (Virgin Islands) some hundred odd years, owns the Country Club field on which Col. Lindbergh landed. They are neither Moros nor morons...
Frances N. Newman (authoress of The Hard-Boiled Virgin*) pleaded for mercy for a Negro named Henry Ford who robbed her apartment in Atlanta, Ga. Said she: "Please let him go, judge. He only got 17 cents in my apartment." Judge Virlyn B. Moore listened with compassion, then sen- tenced Negro Ford, who had two other robberies against him, to three years in jail...
...novel (TIME, Jan. 24, 1927), wherein a girl who was reared to be snoopy about sex becomes a cosmopolitan esthete. The soon forgotten fame of The Hard-Boiled Virgin rested on such smart remarks as: "In Georgia, no lady was supposed to know she was a virgin until she ceased...
...bluer sea. Once he dipped to scoot cheerily close to the steamer Amsterdam. Once he scuttled through a sudden rain squall. Land notched the horizon far ahead. From there he flew over nearly nine hundred miles of "Islands in the Lesser Antilles. At St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands he got down. Speeches. When he left the following day a family of Morons, island aristocrats, petitioned the government to change the name of their property where the Spirit of St. Louis landed from Mosquito Bay to Lindbergh's Landing...
...earth to race their frightened flight. Soon he lost his way; sooner again he found it and sank to safety at Maracay, Venezuela. He motored to nearby Caracas, shook hands, gave thanks for fervent reception, listened to Spanish speeches, prepared to hop to St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands...