Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Irritated but by no means flustered by these tactics, the President asked Directors Morgan and Lilienthal about the charges, found them eager to deny them, occasionally in chorus. As to "boyish open candor" being a "mask for hard-boiled selfish integrity," as the chairman maintained, Director Lilienthal retorted: "I certainly wouldn't argue whether I have a pleasant personality...
...disliked the old Robert Taylor (for one reason or another) but a lot more are going to dislike the new Robert Taylor. He is a big, virile fellow--courtesy of M. G. M.--with incredible athletic prowess, a fine disdain for the weaker sex. He carries his beauty with boyish modesty. And just to rouse the dormant nationalism in the breast of every true American, he has gone to England--courtesy of M. G. M.--and taken it by storm. "A Yank at Oxford," now at Loew's, is a domestic flop which promises to become an international incident...
...September 11, 1936, a boyish-looking ex-lightweight champion of Harvard named Munro Leaf published a 64-page children's book called Ferdinand. It was the tale of a Spanish bull that refused to fight, and Author Leaf had written it in one afternoon. Ferdinand sold only 13,736 copies the first year. Then it really began to go. By last week it had sold 90,000 copies; Author Leaf and Illustrator Robert Lawson had made about $10,000 in royalties ; Walt Disney had purchased Ferdinand for a Silly Symphony; letters were pouring in accusing Ferdinand of Red, Fascist...
...drags weefully as it tells the familiar story of a loyal Navy man who is almost dismissed but is pardoned at the last moment just in time to win the annual Army game. James Stewart is the bashful, blushing here, who spends half his time examining his feet in boyish timidity. Robert Young is his roommate who learns to love the glorious traditions of the Navy. Florence Rice is a very weak love interest...
Determined stage-door Johnnies will have to tell whether their appearance is "boyish, manly, handsome, distinguished, athletic, or scholarly"; whether they are "shy, bold, cautious, rockless, forward, retiring, or just natural with girls"; whether they are lady-killers or bookworms...