Alberto Vargas - "Miss America" - September 1942 Esquire Magazine Varga Girl Gatefold Illustration – Gatefold # 22 of 63 – Verse by Phil Stack -
This lovely creation has earned a vacation
For she is a symbol, today,
Of all the career girls, those deadly sincere girls
Who fought for the old U.S.A.;
She’s taken dictation with speed and elation
From men who are running the show,
And gotten out orders that stream from the borders
To cover poor Adolf with woe;
She’s not out romancing or dining or dancing …
Her heart has already been won,
And her recreation throughout the duration
Is writing a lad-with-a-gun;
So join the cheer for a hard-working dear
As she turns from her toil and relaxes,
She’s shown we’re a nation that will take dictation -
But not if it comes from the Axis!
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Even as I stood there this looked fictional.
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Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956
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Ive had this saved in my phone since April
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look all i'm asking for is forehead kisses and academic validation and autumn and museum dates and cold bedsheets and misty mornings and baggy sweaters okay???????
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― Ali Smith, The Whole Story and Other Stories
[text ID: It was a Sunday in September. There would only be four.]
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“September days have the warmth of summer in their briefer hours, but in their lengthening evenings a prophetic breath of autumn.”
― Rowland E. Robinson
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