Word: boyish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white-haired but boyish-looking priest in a knee-length clerical coat strode to the dais in the Waldorf-Astoria's Jade Room one afternoon last week, took a soldierly stance between the grand piano and a bowl of pink-and-white chrysanthemums, and faced the expectant crowd. Scotland's Roman Catholic Father Sydney MacEwan, 45, started to sing in a small voice that recalled much of the bewitching sweetness of the late John McCormack. He sang the centuries-old songs of plaintive and merry love, of the sea and of the rugged Hebrides, while mink-jacketed matrons...
Peter Pan (by James M. Barrie; music by Mark Charlap and Jule Styne; lyrics by Carolyn Leigh and Betty Comden and Adolph Green) was bound to become a musical in time-and doubtless in time for Mary Martin to play Peter. She looks as boyish as can be expected of any grownup of the opposite sex. She is hard to beat at singing, she can dance, she can duel with Captain Hook; and when she flies through the air, she races and soars and dips like some Peter Pan-American...
...lanky, boyish-looking man of 41, Ballantine has a Ph.D. from Harvard, seems the sort of scholarly man any scholarly college would want. But other colleges do not share Reed's almost fanatical belief in the power of the faculty and student body. Example: when Ballantine suggested that the faculty council should not have the final say on faculty salaries, his suggestion was rejected. Last June, without consulting the faculty, Ballantine temporarily suspended an art professor for refusing to answer questions before the Velde Committee. By a 38-9 vote, the faculty passed a resolution expressing a "grave weakening...
...Lady-Killer. Little Leo has no idea what Marian thinks about marrying Lord Trimingham. He only knows that she is his boyish ideal of a goddess and that he worships her beauty almost as much as Lord Trimingham's viscountcy. To fetch and carry for Maid Marian is heaven to Leo-especially when she asks him to carry a secret letter from her to Ted Burgess and rewards him with "an enchanting smile...
...some U.S. editors still clung to their skepticism, they lost it next day when Jacques Fath followed with his own version of "the boyish look" and the "downward-sliding silhouette." His models walked with their weight thrown back on their heels to suppress bosoms and accentuate their southering belts. There was no blinking it: it was the "debutante slouch" of the '20s. Could beaded dresses, long cigarette holders and the shrill laugh be far behind...