First recorded in 1905–10
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Elsewhere they reveal a wonderful selection of found ephemera including a 1968 "good girl guide".
From The Guardian ● Jan. 15, 2011
So after high school she went to work as a girl guide in a Bethlehem Steel plant, and then it was on to New York and the Plaza Five modeling agency.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the Shanghai Industrial Exhibition, I asked a girl guide who used all the perfumes and lipsticks � in twelve shades of pink, purple-red and orange � that were on display.
From Time Magazine Archive
Them’s his long suit,” declared the girl guide.
From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.
Although 119 Ruth continued to keep Min, the girl guide, to the fore, she saw that the girl’s father was going to be vastly pleased by being made of some account.
From Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold by Emerson, Alice B.
But one of the internees decided to start a Girl Guide group, which would meet once a week in a corner of the exercise yard.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2024
She’s also launching her book, the Girl Guide: an illustrated and empowering how-to for girls going through puberty, sub-titled “50 ways to love your changing body”.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 21, 2019
She does not want to give details of the attack, but describes how she fought back - putting into practice some long-forgotten Girl Guide training.
From BBC ● Mar. 13, 2018
Mum and Dad Moone regret their empty promise to let Sinead go to Girl Guide Jamboree if she comes top of the class, so will stop at nothing to scupper her studies.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 8, 2012
Some of them are old clippings, and show Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret Rose, in Girl Guide uniforms, making radio and other speeches during the Blitz.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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