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My other Hollywood novel, Loop Group, though wholly ignored, contains a far better picture of what one might call working-girl Hollywood, about which, by gosh and by golly, I finally began to learn a few things.
HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010
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The car dashed on, leaving the flurry of combat far behind, and its dumfounded passengers never dreamed that the quiet young man and the pretty working-girl sitting in the corner on the outside seat had been the cause of the row.
Chapter 42 2010
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Though the publications conjure up stereotyped yarns of Wild West adventure, complete with lurid cover illustration, many other genres were represented: tales of urban outlaws, detective stories, working-girl narratives of virtue defended, and costume romances.
Archive 2007-02-01 2007
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Though the publications conjure up stereotyped yarns of Wild West adventure, complete with lurid cover illustration, many other genres were represented: tales of urban outlaws, detective stories, working-girl narratives of virtue defended, and costume romances.
Creating, Managing & Pres. Dig. Assets: Stanford's Dime Novels & Penny Dreadfuls 2007
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She must have her real boy name, her real girl name, and then her working-girl name.
The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009
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Easy Living (1937) - Frustrated with his wife's spending habits, financier J.B. Ball (Edward Arnold) throws his wife's new $58,000 sable coat out of the window, where it alights on the shoulders of working-girl Mary Smith (Jean Arthur), who's riding to the office on a double-decker bus.
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She must have her real boy name, her real girl name, and then her working-girl name.
The Double Life is Twice as Good Jonathan Ames 2009
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A working-girl heroine brings a rich guy out of his isolation, and gets a new wardrobe in the bargain (plus a picturesque holiday in the beautiful seacoast town of Mendocino, where our lovers escape for an idyllic interlude).
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I really liked the early ones best, the working-girl mysteries set in the war years of Chicago.
Archive 2008-02-01 Ed Gorman 2008
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I really liked the early ones best, the working-girl mysteries set in the war years of Chicago.
Phyllis A. Whitney Ed Gorman 2008
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