Word: coquettish
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, to please Publisher William Randolph Hearst, wrote coquettish Lady Grace Drummond Hay of the corps of Hearst correspondents on the Hearst-arranged globe trot of the Graf Zeppelin...
...with fond motherliness had idealized him in her novel, was the original model for the lacy-collared, golden-curled Lord Fauntleroy, who rankled little boys of another generation. His metamorphosis gave the reporters opportunity to contrast his bald pate to the departed curls; his tall height to the coquettish figure of the book. Vivian himself whimpered, "No matter where I go or what I do, there is always the reference to the fact that I was the germ of the Fauntlerpy story. ... It wasn't I-" his voice broke. "I wasn't like that...
...hobo, and the proprietress out of dangerous holes. Then there are the villains, well drawn, better acted, and best cast, and the local characters highly indigenous and the comic prize fighter, "Bull" Moran, et altera. Young Jerry Devine, as the hero and heroine idolater and the son of the coquettish proprietress, is, however, one of the chief stars. His juvenile acting is absolutely genuine and has much charm withal. And with these bouquets distributed, one must retire. "Weeds" is not a brilliant or sensational play, but it affords as good a measure of diversion as many a more pretentious offering...
Perhaps a few years hence, when the present requirements in foreign languages begin to bear fruit, the usual breakfast dish will be "oeuf cocotte a la creme--coquettish eggs", as Mr. Britten reports it. Chicken hash will appear incognito as "hachis de voloille aux haricots verts" while a rib of veal will adopt the ambiguous disquise of "cootie de veaux," one of the "noisette" dishes. French, apparently, is the language of gastronomy, and there may yet appear in the catalogue of the French department "Gastronomy 5", the Appreciation of Menus...