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1  She wouldn't go to the Jolly Seventeen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
2  You'll have to join the Jolly Seventeen.
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3  She found a refuge in the Jolly Seventeen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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4  You say that the Jolly Seventeen is stupid.
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5  She went to the Jolly Seventeen's afternoon bridge.
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6  Yes, even the Jolly Seventeen isn't always so exciting.
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7  I always think the Jolly Seventeen are so good at original ideas.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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8  I don't see why you shouldn't criticize the Jolly Seventeen if you want to.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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9  Most of the Jolly Seventeen were young married women, with their husbands as associate members.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
10  It was the day for the monthly supper and evening-bridge of the Jolly Seventeen, but Carol dared not go.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
11  Four days after the Jolly Seventeen debacle Vida Sherwin called and casually blew Carol's world to pieces.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
12  Carol had noted Mrs. Dillon dragging past the house during a bridge of the Jolly Seventeen, looking in with pathetic lips at the splendor of the accepted.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
13  She looked forward to the next bridge of the Jolly Seventeen, and the security of whispering with her dear friends Maud Dyer and Juanita and Mrs. McGanum.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX
14  But she discovered that Bea was extraordinarily like girls she had loved in college, and as a companion altogether superior to the young matrons of the Jolly Seventeen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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15  She never again felt quite young enough and defiant enough and free enough to run and halloo in the public streets; and it was as a Nice Married Woman that she attended the next weekly bridge of the Jolly Seventeen.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
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16  Ella Stowbody had once gone to a Jolly Seventeen Soiree in the village hack, hitherto confined to chief mourners at funerals; and Harry Haydock and Dr. Terry Gould always appeared in the town's only specimens of evening clothes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  IN three years of exile from herself Carol had certain experiences chronicled as important by the Dauntless, or discussed by the Jolly Seventeen, but the event unchronicled, undiscussed, and supremely controlling, was her slow admission of longing to find her own people.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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