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Mary Pickford
Mary Pickford 1893-1979, American movie actress, b. Toronto, Ont. In 1909 she began working with D. W. Griffith . Specializing in playing young girls, she was dubbed "America's Sweetheart." Her films include A Poor Little Rich Girl (1917), Pollyanna (1919), Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921),... Read more |
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Juliette Gordon Low
Juliette Gordon Low 1860-1927, American founder of the Girl Scouts, b. Savannah, Ga., as Juliette Magill Kinzie Gordon. From a prominent Southern family, she met Robert Baden-Powell , founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, in England in 1911 and began organizing Girl Guide troops in Great... Read more |
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Bethune-Cookman College
Bethune-Cookman College On October 3, 1904, African-American educator and activist Mary McLeod Bethune founded a normal and industrial school for African-American girls in Daytona Beach, Florida. Although she began with only five students in a small rented house, in less than two years Bethune... Read more |
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Dysmenorrhea
Dysmenorrhea Definition Dysmenorrhea refers to the painor discomfort associated with menstruation. Although not a serious medical problem, the term describes a woman adolescent girl with menstrual symptoms severe enough to keep her from functioning for a day or two... Read more |
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Ashley Olsen
Olsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley Mary-Kate Olsen June 13, 1986 • Sherman Oaks, California Entertainer Ashley Olsen June 13, 1986 • Sherman Oaks, California Entertainer Twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen have been in front of the cameras since before they could walk... Read more |
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Helen Gurley Brown
Helen Gurley Brown 1922-, American writer and editor, b. Green Forest, Ark. In 1962 she published the best-selling Sex and the Single Girl (1962); its sequel Sex and the New Single Girl appeared in 1970. From 1965 to 1997 she was editor of Cosmopolitan, reviving the faltering magazine by... Read more |
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Frances Mary Buss
Buss, Frances Mary (1827–94). A pioneer of higher education for women, Frances Buss started teaching at 14. She entered Queen's College, London, in 1849 and went on to found the North London Collegiate School for Girls the following year. Starting with 35 pupils, a year later it had 135 and a... Read more |
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Girl Scouts
Girl Scouts Girl Scouts of the USA, the largest voluntary organization for girls in America, is the only major group largely run by women ever since its inception. In 2003, there were 3.8 million Girl Scouts; more than fifty million women and girls have belonged to the organization since its... Read more |
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Precocious puberty
Precocious puberty Definition Precocious puberty is sexual development before the age of eight in girls, and age 10 in boys. Description Precocious pubertyoften begins before age eight in girls, triggering the development of breasts and hair under the arms and in the... Read more |
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Grace Hoadley Dodge
Grace Hoadley Dodge 1856-1914, American philanthropist, b. New York City; great-granddaughter of David Low Dodge. She played an important part in the founding of Teachers College of Columbia. She also promoted working girls' clubs and the New York Travelers' Aid Society.... Read more |
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GIRL MOVIES, THEN AND NOW
...film, the girls open a day...about rich girls in Beverly...little rich girl at a posh New...historical American Indian princess...peers and growing up. Scheduled...on the young girl who is romanced...heroes are ... |
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COVER STORY: The good American
...own: playing in Mary Pickford's yard; travelling...the hand of the girl he loves - created...class, middle-American, all-American college boy...If you were growing up in the 1980s...suffering the growing ... |
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Action to please all in coming months: `Executive Decision' and...
...classics Diary of a Lost Girl, Pandora's Box...95), The Extra Girl ($19.95), Raggedy...95 each), while Mary Pickford is represented by...Clan, The Little American, Stella Maris and...Joining the ever-growing list of ... |
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Paramount turns 75 with style
...dazzled a hatcheck girl with her jewels and...her, the hatcheck girl gushed: "Goodness...oldest surviving American movie company. The...was sweet, pure Mary Pickford; its star attraction...theaters, and the growing ... |
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Historical Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs: 1776 to the Present....
...Encyclopedia of American Women Entrepreneurs...contributions of American women to the...cosmetics), Mary Pickford (movie studio...founder of Girl Scouts USA...media) and Mary Kay Ash (cosmetics...literature had begun ... |
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Starz Entertainment and Playboy Entertainment's Original Documentary 'Bullets...
...Outside the Law is as American as Apple Pie...ending appeal of the American gangster movie...influence on me as a kid growing up in Chicago...Discovering the It Girl," "Louise Brooks...Looking for Lulu," "Mary Pickford: A ... |
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VIEWPOINTS--A STROLL DOWN MEMORY LANE TAKES US FROM HIGH-BUTTON SHOES TO...
...typical of the Gibson Girl, who became the symbol...America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford types. Shoes stayed...and skirts, and the American supremacy in sportswear...Dietrich). There was a growing variety of footnote choices...trapeze shape. ... |
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