Goucher College - Donnybrook Fair Yearbook (Baltimore, MD)

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i. ig , ,,, vi Q5 -rf: lf Baltimore-a big town growing bigger. I body, Conservatory and Library .... If you can't iight, work! . . . . I ugly, noisy shipyards, turning out the ships of war .... Glenn L. Martin's planes for victory .... slack-clad women .... thousands swelling the population .... Baltimore, growing bigger and bigger .... Baltimore-just a small town at heart .... following the career of the eltervescent Mayor Mclieldin .... joking about women street-car conductors .... keeping posted on the latest word from Pimlico .... enthusiastically following Yardley, the cartoonist, and Yardley's white cat . . . . boasting that Baltimore weather is the worst in the world . . . . ignoring Wasliiiigtori Monument's unimposing dignity-Hrst monument in the country to the Hrst president .... watching the city skyline at night from a boat coming into the harbor .... big town-small town harbor, battleships side by side with little banana boats .... Baltimore-a gray city coming alive in spring .... on street corners, huge bunches of jonquils in pails of water .... gusty winds threatening fluffy spring hats .... antique shops and second-hand book stores on Howard Street, their narrow doors open to the leisurely passers-by .... . . . . and Annapolis only twenty-live miles away. familiar landmarks. 23 Shot Tower and Mt. Vernon Place

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The life of the city girl is the life ot the city itself... Baltimore-lcnown elsewhere for .... its white marble steps .... historic monuments .... seafood at Miller Brothers .... H. L. Mencken and his books on the turn-of-the-century America .... Wfallis Vtfarheld, Duchess of VVindsor, the girl from Baltimore town who made a king take off his crown' '... . that poem and the answering howl of protest pour- ing in from all around the world .... Baltimore-a big town growing bigger '.... learning and culture always held high .... the Lyric and the rapidly rising new Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, acclaimed by enthusiastic music-lovers .... the dignihed little art galleries .... Fords with its recent face-lifting .... the three institutions that bachelors built: Enoch Pratt Free Library, the Poe Roomg McDonogh School, familiar blue uniformsg the Pea- CITY GIRLS' BOARD N Seated: I-I. VV ood, E. XVhite. Standing: A. Gary, M. DeMutl1, H. X ' Guth, V. O'Brien.

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