Word: girlhood
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...both male and female gender have poured forth their wayward wrath upon Freshman cynic Donald S. Rugoff, who read Life Magazine's recent pictorial essay on the gloriously wholesome American teen-age girl and wrote to the editor venomously suggesting that he had been looking at our young girlhood through "rose-colored glasses," and urging him to take a soulful glance at the pick-ups in Times Square and Boston Common...
Nephew and heir of a fabulously wealthy speculator, Paul was handsome, broad-shouldered, faithful, devoted to Anne. At ler first girlhood dances he had been a protector among the strange, stony-faced little boys in their first dinner jackets. Anne intended to marry Paul, but would not set a date, and when he left for Chicago on business-warning her not to have a last fling in his absence-she was half relieved...
When Frossia returned to Petrograd after the revolution, she found the city of her girlhood a graveyard. On her first night there she stumbled through the snow to the shattered summerhouse in the ruins of her family home. "Cautiously she made her way to the summerhouse, found the door and sank to the floor, pulling the sack off her shoulders and fumbling for a match. The pale yellow bud of the flame gave her the tiny refuge, rich in cobwebs and dust. A sodden, half-rotted rug still lay across a low marble bench. Overhead the roof caved in rather...
...Pola called herself Negri after Italian Poetess Ada Negri, a girlhood idol...
Says she: "I had a good childhood . . . girlhood . . . virginhood. . . . The Long Island Sound under moonlight, the waves playing music against the shore . . . the taste of warm tomatoes eaten from the garden. . . . The bustle of Christmas, the taut joy of gifts . . . bare feet on wet dawn lawns...