TUESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1929 | HI 27° LOW 16°

Had lunch with Bert. She told me a lot of things about the racers, etc., that I didn’t know before. I might have told her more than I should, but I don’t care.

Went to rehearsal. Everybody was there for a change. We had barrels of fun. Ethel came after me & waited. Walt took us home. He came down with me & didn’t leave until 12:30 – Whoopee!

Whoopee? Whoopee? I don’t know what to even say to that. Because I wonder what it means. As in how much whoopee? Like, he stayed that long and we just talked? He stayed that long and we made out? Kissed? Held hands? Had, uh, sex? What constituted “Whoopee!” in 1929 for a 20-year-old single woman? She actually remembers when women were granted the right to vote (1920). And I did some Goothing (Googling + Sleuthing) and men and women started living together in the ’20s, some with written agreements (like a prenup without the marriage). I don’t want to get overly focused on this last sentence though. I’m way more intrigued by the stuff about “racers,” and telling Bert too much? Too much about what?

New People

Bert: A woman who knows a lot about the racers. More than Ethel knows.

Ethel: OK, confusing, but this is another Ethel. We know she’s a woman who came after her/Ethel (picked her up? literally came “after” her somewhere?). She also waited, but we don’t know what she was waiting for.

Walt: Is a man who might have a car, or other transportation. Did he drop the other Ethel off too?

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