Word: gamine
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...these circumstances, Elizabeth Bergner's performance is on the order of Monologist Ruth Draper's. She is first seen as an ingenuous gamin, pigeontoed, stealing sweets and spinning an incredible yarn about her eventful life, which includes the experience of motherhood. Then she is the wise little gnome keeping willful Sebastian Sanger, her lover, from taking his brother Caryl's girl. She seems to lose stature, shrivel up with unhappiness as Sebastian's mistreated wife. And her little body expands miraculously with an almost majestic grief in the short scene following her baby's death...
...which began as "The Katzenjammer Kids" (katzenjammer, literally "cat's cry," means "hangover" in contemporary German slang) is the oldest color page with a continuous existence in newspaper history. The World had the first of all U. S. colored comic strips, "The Yellow Kid"-a gamin whose street argot later gave rise to the term "yellow journalism"-produced by the late Richard Felt on ("Buster Brown") Outcault Hearst lured Outcault to the Journal. Meanwhile the Journal's new "Katzenjammer Kids" had struck popular fancy. The World saw its chance to retaliate for the loss of the "Yellow...
What a contrast there is between this firm-fleshed, bouncing gamin and the delicate, well brought-up little boy by Desidevaerio. The charm of this master's busts of children is almost too evanescent a thing to describe in words. One will want to look at this little head from every angle to enjoy the play of light on the wonderfully soft texture of the marble, to see how well the sculptor has caught the ever-changing expression, mischievous and yet touched with sadness, that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna...
Having recovered from my conflict with the Nordie on the steps of Fogg. I was next approached by a little gamin by the name of Joe Forecast Jr., who apparently is a denizen of Plympton Street...
...ever having been printed on yellow paper. The origin of the opprobious "yellow journalism" came about through a "comic" drawn by R. F. Outcault, called "The Yellow Kid." This appeared first in the World; scored such a hit that Hearst bought Outcault away from Pulitzer. It depicted a street gamin who wore a yellow night shirt, on which was inscribed all the gutter chatter and slang of that day, and it was out of that incident that the term "yellow journalism" was coined...