Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Therefore it was news that the smiling boyish face of the grandson of the late Henry Cabot Lodge will appear in his grandfather's place in the U. S. Senate. It was still more striking because Henry Cabot Lodge II, 34, not only defeated foxy old Governor James M. Curley, but successfully strode through the Democratic landslide that smashed many an old-time Republican...
Dorothy Arzner is short, stocky, with a quiet executive manner, a boyish bob and an interest in medicine and sunsets. She graduated from Westlake School, a semi-fashionable Los Angeles seminary for girls, into a job on the switchboard for a wholesale coffee house. A friend got her a $3 raise and a place in the Paramount stenographic department. She became a script girl for Nazimova, did so well that she was pro moted to the cutting room - a department then generally staffed exclusively...
Batter Gehrig takes boyish pride in banging a baseball as far, and running around the bases as quickly, as possible. Nothing so unsubtle would suit solemn Pitcher Hubbell. A baseball sadist, he prefers to let a batter tap out a grounder which is almost but not quite good enough to get him to first base if he runs his fastest. When forced to effect a strikeout, Hubbell does so as slowly and as painfully as possible. In the offseason, Pitcher Hubbell's amusement is hunting. When pitching, his cheeks look drawn, his trousers hang down far below his knees...
...Transcript. His political experience was acquired as newshawk and editorial writer for the New York Herald Tribune where he thumped long and loud against Philippine Independence. His first political victory was won four years ago when he was elected to the Massachusetts legislature, his great name and pleasant boyish manner netting him a whacking big vote which was repeated two years later...
...sitting on Adolf Hitler's right, nor Minister of Interior Dr. Wilhelm Frick, who was on his left, moved a muscle to prevent what, for all they knew, might have been an attack on the Realmleader. As apple-cheeked S. S. Guards, with horror on their boyish Nazi faces, came bounding forward, the California Kisser blithely disengaged herself, was permitted to run to her husband who had shot the whole sequence with his home cinema camera. "Hitler," enthused Mrs. de Vries, "was ever so nice...