Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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More trivial things than torn theatre posters have caused serious riots in Tangier. Diagonally across the strait from British-owned Gibraltar, Tangier is nominally under the rule of boyish Sidi Mohammed, Sultan of Morocco. Actually it is ruled by an unwieldy international board composed of a French administrator with Spanish, British and Italian assistants. International feeling is high; Administrator Paul Alberge sent detectives to watch the alley between the French and Spanish cinemas...
...gave morbid ardor to her acting of Lady Macbeth in New Orleans. In New York she became a poetess and the wife of Heavyweight Champion John C. Heenan. Her acting in Mazeppa brought her fame. This was the sensational play wherein, as a Tartar boy, she wore the first boyish bob on the New York stage. The place was the Bowery Theatre, lately burned down. Part of her part every night was to let herself be strapped quasi-nude to the back of a black, spirited horse. When the horse ran away, the audience gasped; their excitement, insinuates Author Oursler...
...though I doubt whether I will ever lose it. The bobbing epidemic afforded me the greatest possible joy, for I was able to see and list in a diary with all attendant circumstances over 500 "first bobbings" without revealing the circumstances at all. The rapidly increasing popularity of the boyish bob gives me almost as much (purely mental) pleasure. I certainly would have become a barber and so permitted myself constant association with this dæmon of mine did not California have a license law requiring four years of study of shaving and men's haircutting (neither...
...Hugh Beckett Greene, 19, fair, chinless, has a boyish shape (shoulders larger than hips) but wants to have the girlish reverse. Her wedding-day confession...
...There has been no official action taken so far on the editorial," Potter said. "And there will be none in the future. We intend simply to ignore the article, which was just a piece of boyish writing, I feel...