Word: gamins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unnamed but swivel-hipped gamin had a wonderful time. Between halves he raced the entire length of the field, stiff-arming windmills and shunning imaginary tacklers, to score on the only long run of the day that was not called back. He completely baffled the tricky defense set for him by the Cambridge gendarmerie...
...amount of strenuous plot trouble-or even a long fall down a flight of steps-seems to jar Gene Tierney's smooth deadpan. Waking or sleeping, in ecstasy or anger, joy or sorrow, her pretty, composed features seem to be asking the single, gamin-&-spinach question...
...grubby, sad-faced gamin wearing an old sweater, patched pants and dirty sneakers, and carrying a slingshot, was packing them in last week in Montreal. He is known to all of French-speaking Canada as "Fridolin," whose annual revues, begun in 1938, have become the joy of French-speaking Montreal and Quebec. His real name-Gratien Gélinas-has faded into the background, as has the fact that he was once the most popular artist on the Canadian, radio. This season's Fridolinons, now running in Montreal, looks like the most successful ever...
Paulette Goddard, well-gammed gamin of the cinema, was back in Manhattan from an eleven-week, 38,000-mile U.S.O. Camp Show tour. In the CBI (China-Burma-India) war theater, where she was the first U.S. woman entertainer, Paulette had a narrow escape: at the jump-off field in Burma the weather looked dirty, so the pilot who had won in a lottery (TIME, March 13) the right to take her over the Hump decided to wait; that night another plane crashed in the Himalayas. Tabbed "Madame Cheesecake" by the G.I.s, she was given a scroll by vinegary Lieut...
Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis...