Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unusually restrained. As a worried bachelor professor who furtively fathers an abandoned boy baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis (Mrs. William Powell; TIME, Jan. 15), carry the picture...
Formula. Unlike other fashion magazines Mademoiselle has a collegiate atmosphere. It appeals to women between 17 and 30, and its editorial voice sounds more like the glib chatter of 17 than like 30's cool sophistication. It is definitely cute...
...last week the carefree life was drawing to a close for Akihito. His cute rice-bowl bob was shaved right to the pate. He was given last fittings for a navy blue serge uniform trimmed with red cord, a cap with a bright brass cherry blossom badge. The Prince was ready for school...
...Miami's Hialeah Park and Tropical Park, winter visitors, converging from all over the country, took to the cute little Puss-in-boots as movie fans took to Shirley Temple a few years ago. Oldtimers as well as race-going recruits ignored form charts, played Flinchum regardless of his mount. Booting home winner after winner, against top-notchers like Eddie Arcaro and Don Meade. he was the sensation of the Florida racing season...
...thing about the picture is not the magnificent humor, but the stuff of which that humor is made. With the possible exception of one strange little man who runs around with cups of loaded coffee, every character comes straight out of the Sears-Roebuck catalogue,--the hero, doughy, and cute; the heroine, sultry siren; the ba-ad, ba-a-ad gangster; the well-greased reporter; beefy foto-man; city editor on the perpetual verge of a nervous breakdown; and then, of course, somebody gets murdered just to start things off with a bang. A perfect set-up for a grade...