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Bobbed Hair Brings Beards, German Warns Modern WomanBERLIN, July 12 (Associated Press). -- The women of the future may have longer beards than the bearded women of the circus today, in the opinion of Dr. Adolph Heilbron, if they continue the invasion of man's domain of activities."As woman exercises more and more the functions formerly belonging to man," Heilbron writes in the Berlin Morgenpost,

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"The New York Commissioner of Police applies for 2,000 more cops, some of the bobbed-haired bandits being unprovided with escorts."[George Rothwell Brown, "Post-Scripts," Washington Post April 19, 1924]

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Nuptial Procession Foxtrots to Altar in First Syncopated Marriage Ceremony.EVEN DAN CUPID SHIMMIESFirst syncopated marriage ceremonyViolins Croon and Saxophones Groan as Knot Is Tied at Roseland.Ever since Kathleen Bott became engaged to Robert Wagner, she dreamed of a big wedding with all the modern accessories. But she never dreamed of as marriage so spectacular, so ultra-modern as that which

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"Strange Phase of Modern Feminism Keeps Whole of Police Guessing Hard."A Is the bob-haired bandit the first specimen of a new variety of criminal? Or is she an old variety acting in a new way? [ . . . ]"Police theories to account for this peculiar development of feminism are many."[She is ] a stenographer meekly taking dictation by day and a bandit giving orders, pistol in hand, by night.[Her]

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Current Fiction HeroesBy Hamlin Garland[ . . . ]     I admit to certain old-fashioned prejudices.  I don’t like to see women smoke, and I don’t like to hear them swear, even in plays.  I am saddened when I find them writing (or defending) pornographic fiction, or performing as actresses in debasing-dramas written by men.  As an individualist I grant women equal rights with men, but I am not

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Because You See Rouge and Furs Is No Sign of Decaying MoralsSays Factory Girls are Good-Hearted, Clean-Charactered Little Things.MARRIAGE MAIN OBJECTIVEWon’t Take Work Seriously, but Live in Dream of Having a Home.Shop Girl Philosophy; Clean Bill of Health “Unions would help win higher wages. But the only union working girls will join is marriage.” “More than 30,000 girls in New York

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Wife Seeks Separation From Husband Who Liked Russia’s Free Love Socialism caused Joseph Weil, Brooklyn public school teacher, to neglect his wife and five children and to threaten removal to Russia, “where life and love are free,” according to charges of his wife, Anna, whom Supreme Court Justice Callaghan today awarded $20 weekly pending trial of her suit for separation. Weil, his wife

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"Parental Neglect" In these two words District Attorney Charles J. Dodd, who prosecuted the four young murders recently sentenced to the electric chair, summed up one of the chief causes of the problem Brooklyn faces today—the problem of the boy on the streets [ . . .] “A very large share of the blame rests upon the shoulders of parents and it cannot be shifted. They do not exact from

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French Writer on Feminine Matters Declares Whole Aim in Present Fashions is to Conceal Female Form and Make Women Look Like Boys.By Alfred M. MurrayStaff Correspondent of The WorldSpecial Cable to The World Paris, May 14.—The aim of present day fashion is to conceal the feminine form, according to Marcel Prevost, France’s foremost writer on women psychology, who says that certain prominent

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“Little and Skinny” Is Way 10-Year-Old Dancer Likes Them(Special to the Eagle)Sea Cliff, L.I., March 18—There is a dancing class for children here which has become a very popular one, both with the boys as well as the girls. Little youngsters up to 10 years or so are learning social dancing and one bright boy was recently asked by his mother as to why he always seemed to pick the same little

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If bobbed hair is objectionable (and not an unarguable matter of taste) there is one way to put it out of fashion. Make it compulsory in prisons for women.[Wall Street Journal, May 24, 1922.]

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     The modern girl with bobbed hair has at least one valiant defender in the person of a local manufacturer who employs a good deal of feminine help.  “Bobbed-haired girls,” he explains, “comb their tresses at their desks and are at work again in a few minutes.  Long locks mean a trip to the dressing room, several minutes fussing with the hair, and usually a long conversation with long-haired

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“I don’t like that man,” said the young stenographer.  “I was talking to him the other night at Mary’s party and I said to something about getting up early every morning and going down town.   He raised his eyebrows, sort of surprised and interested and asked me: ‘oh, do you work?’  Well, you can believe I shut him up.  ‘I go to business,’ I told him.  The very idea—him trying to make me out a

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By Frances McDonaldPossible Delinquents     In certain cities the police have a list of girls filed as “possible delinquents”—not because those girls have as yet actually committed any crime—but because they have been seen repeatedly at dance halls.  This system seemed to me at first, a bit unfair.     “Why do you call them ‘possible delinquents?’” I asked the Chief.     “Because that just

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‘Vamps’ of 51 and 61 Must Re-establish Morals. . .Special Dispatch to the Tribune[Rev. Dr. Edward J Gratz, speaking before the eighty-eighth annual New Jersey Methodist Episcopal Conference in Atlantic City:]     “Let the flappers of forty-one, fifty-one and sixty-one re-establish the family altars,” he asserted.  “There is a perfect barrage of abuse against young people for the clothes they wear

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Perfectly Upright and Essentially Practical, Description by Marcel PrevostBy the Associated PressPARIS.     The after-the-war French girl has been analyzed mentally by Marcel Prevost, who is universally accepted in France as a specialist in the psychology of his countrywoman.  In an article headed “Modern Marriage and Love” the Academician describes the typical girl of to-day as a perfectly

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     Brooklyn:  The bobbed-haired situation over here has become funny., if not ridiculous.  Every other man one encounters has a police whistle ready to blow at the sight of a bob and our poor flappers are now classed as gunwomen and highway robbers.  The toughest man in Brooklyn is not half so feared right now as the girl with shorn locks, especially if one or both hands happen to be beneath

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     Perhaps the most interesting, at all events the most spectacular crook of modern times is the girl bandit who appears here, there and everywhere.  She circulates around Brooklyn at her own sweet will, cheerfully pointing a revolver at whoever she believes is in charge of available loot, with a pleasant, “hold up your hands.”  Always she is accompanied by a male comrade to whom she gives

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Police Stock of Useless Information Increased by Unsolicited Census of Clipped Ones, While Girl Bandit Makes Embattled “Cops” Look Foolish     “There’s a good-looking, bob-haired girl living in our apartment house she’s got a fur coat, and I saw her come in late last night.  I think she’s the bandit.”     Brooklyn Police Headquarters is struggling through a pile of correspondence as deep as

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     The “bob-haired bandit squad” playing hide and seek in Brooklyn with a too enterprising young woman seems likely to have a permanent vocation, unless bobbed hair should go out of fashion.  For two months Mr. Enright’s men have pursued the will-of-the-wisp.  They have, indeed, collected an example or two of the species, but no sooner do they think they have tagged the real culprit then “Hands

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Man, Disguised as Woman, Fools Cop Until Hat Falls Off; Then Arrest Follows((Special to The Eagle.)     Long Island City, L.I., March 6—Patrolman Stewart Donnelly was nervous. He fingered his club and studied it intently. He almost refused to glance across the aisle of the Steinway ave. trolley car in Long Island City in which he was riding. But he did glance once in a while at an expanse of

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Telegrams and Pictures of Male Admirers Found in Wilson’s Room.     That Clarence Wilson the slim young elevator boy, and Fred Martino, the high school boy, arrested as bob-haired bandit suspects played havoc with the hearts of numerous admirers of the sterner sex with their feminine disguise is evidenced by the fact that in Wilson’s room were found an endearing letter, telegrams of appointments

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Big Increase In Demand For Bibles Shows Trend Against Materialism[. . .] Almost a quarter of the twentieth century has now progressed and still there is no unanimity among savants as to whether it is to be an era of the spiritual, the triumph of the soul, of morals, of benevolent civilization, or whether it is to be an epoch of materialism, an age swept by the tides of selfishness, revenge

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     Before us lies the editorial column of the Shenandoah Valley News, a small paper published in Waynesboro-Basie Va.  “The New Yorker” is the caption of the column, which is devoted in its entirety to comment on this city and its people.     We should like to quote all of it, but a tabloid newspaper has its space limitations.  There are portions, however, that you simply may not miss.  Read

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PH.D. –(Phenomenally Dumb.) Telephone operators—Admirers of banana songs— . . . Mulish husbands—Sentimental wives—Trolley-car conductors—Automobilists who drive in front of moving trains—Patrons of fortune-tellers.D.D.—(Decidedly Dumb.) Movie stars—Bathers who wear diamonds into the water—Graduates of fashionable finishing schools . . . audible readers of movie captions . . . –Men

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