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Word: gamine (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Offstage, Piaf, now 33, is more hoyden than gamin, loves to poke fun in a husky voice at her manager and friends. And she doesn't worry about her appearance distracting; with her hair combed, and a smartly tailored suit, she is très chic. She is doggedly serious about learning English. She takes a lesson a day; instead of table hopping between her two shows at the Versailles, she studies her grammar book in her dressing room. The main reason: after her third visit to the U.S., she has decided "six months Paris, six months New York...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: La Vie en Rose | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...royal question" of his return was the prime issue (TIME, July 4), decided without consulting anyone to play in the French international golf tournament. Staunch monarchists winced; the King, they said, ought not to compete with just "anybody." In New York former Belgian Premier Georges Theunis peevishly grumbled: "Ce gamin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Perfect Golfer | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

...featured with "Rogues Regiment" is a Hollywood heartwarmer entitled "Big city." It features the cop on the Beat (George Murphy), a good-hearted gamin (Butch Jenkins), and sundry other people you want to avoid. Worst of all it has Margaret O'Brien. This observer has always felt that M-G-M's Margaret is an ill-tempered, abnormal, sniveling little wretch; the sooner she reaches the awkward age the better...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: Rogues' Regiment | 2/7/1949 | See Source »

Last week Pianist Joyce was far from her new fans. She had gone back home to give a charity concert in the Australian mining town of Boulder, "where my father slaved and died." Some of the home folks still remembered her as a red-haired gamin who used to wheeze out Cherry Ripe on a mouth organ for pennies outside of Boulder's Angel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Encore in Australia | 6/7/1948 | See Source »

Police ended that riot, but still, the yelling goes on with undiminished intensity. Yesterday, things hit their peak for Altrocchi. A shoeshine gamin, strolling under his window, looked up and screeched, "Hey, Altrocchi, wanna shine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shouts of 'Altrocchi' Crash Nocturnal Quiet of College | 5/5/1948 | See Source »

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