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■ ■ '■ ' ♦ . WHEN, the calamity-howlers take a vacation from . denouncing New Zealand, they give our girls a session. With pallid" optics uplifted to heaven, they .bewail her abbreviated skirts, or weep salt tears over her talc powder. "She smokes," they exclaim m horrified accents. "She swears occasionally," they snivel. Even the artistic and eminently, sane bobbed hair' is taken as a text for a doleful sermon on the hopelessness of the New Zealand "• girl; the one-piece bathing suit simply robs the calamity Janes of all power.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 6
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86World's Best NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 6
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