Word: boyish
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Once we were there, the plot turned out to be one of those arbitrary scenic ramblings that spends most of its time trying to weave its way into a musical. It had to let Andy Rooney be boys-must-be-boyish and let Judy Garland sing. So Rooney, having failed to crash the New York theatrical world, and having met Judy in the process, decides to combine all the unheeded young talent in the city, get a city block from somewhere, give a tremendous musical, and gain fame, fortune, and Judy at the same time. We really couldn...
...novelist, he must be credited with one novelty: he endows his heroine with boyish rather than feminine charms. That was the fashion in early post-war novels, but faded during the Long Armistice. Author Carmer, who uses not one but two boy-bodied women, may be starting a new phase in the cycle of charm...
...about Chub Peabody after the newspapers completely whitewashed his personality and record. Harlow writes of the unanimous. All-American, "There was something about his eyes that I'll never forget. If you looked into Peabody's eyes off the field they were open and friendly and, set in that boyish face of his, reminded you a little of a baby's. But once the whistle has sounded, those eyes contracted into slits, a sort of green flame seemed to burn in them and you knew you were up against a man who wasn't fooling. I hope I never find...
...circle was shortly joined by Matthew Gregory ("Monk") Lewis, a "boyish-looking man, with large, bulging, curiously flattened eyeballs which projected from his cranium like the eyes of an insect." Lewis was the author of the best-selling shocker, The Monk. So shocked was Byron that he complained that the book was filled with "the philtered ideas of a jaded voluptuary...
...rose boyish, jut-jawed James S. Adams, OPM's automotive production head, at home executive vice president of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, but no soft-soaper. "No," said he slowly, "you cannot get priority ratings for materials going into passenger cars." The quotas, he continued, were only a maximum. Let the industry make that many cars if it could...