The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 139Atlantic Monthly Company, 1927 - American essays |
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Page 14
... boys and girls , throw them- selves into the contest . They provide food for the soldiers in the lines by raising community gardens ; they nurse or entertain the wounded at home , in hospitals , or abroad ; they heap up stores of 14 A ...
... boys and girls , throw them- selves into the contest . They provide food for the soldiers in the lines by raising community gardens ; they nurse or entertain the wounded at home , in hospitals , or abroad ; they heap up stores of 14 A ...
Page 26
... boys and girls strains of fifteen nations and a dozen creeds and races in a Manhattan schoolroom . Indian , Negro ... boy of mine was being brought up ; and more so , even , when I myself For I was of age when my social growth suddenly ...
... boys and girls strains of fifteen nations and a dozen creeds and races in a Manhattan schoolroom . Indian , Negro ... boy of mine was being brought up ; and more so , even , when I myself For I was of age when my social growth suddenly ...
Page 28
... boys being ' shanghaied ' often reached my ear , and where my eyes beheld the stokers on incoming steamers being plundered by runners . Later I invaded the streets that skirted Columbia Heights , and shared a parlor with many a lodger ...
... boys being ' shanghaied ' often reached my ear , and where my eyes beheld the stokers on incoming steamers being plundered by runners . Later I invaded the streets that skirted Columbia Heights , and shared a parlor with many a lodger ...
Page 37
... Boys whose loose trousers were too long for their legs and girls whose tight skirts were too short for theirs hugged each other close , keeping time to the rhythm of hoarsely phonographed blues . Bright enough dresses , certainly ...
... Boys whose loose trousers were too long for their legs and girls whose tight skirts were too short for theirs hugged each other close , keeping time to the rhythm of hoarsely phonographed blues . Bright enough dresses , certainly ...
Page 38
Young girls ' arms about boys ' shoul- ders , their own waists tightly clasped ; bodies warmly fused , bending to the ... boys , and , until they had come to New York , had been equally fond of each other . They had grown up together ...
Young girls ' arms about boys ' shoul- ders , their own waists tightly clasped ; bodies warmly fused , bending to the ... boys , and , until they had come to New York , had been equally fond of each other . They had grown up together ...
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