Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...schizophrenic,* suffering from the most common of the serious mental diseases. As the cause of her difficulties, they chose inadequate parents, who burdened her with a guilt complex plus a father fixation. The case history, revealed in a series of flashbacks throughout the picture, includes familiar items: a little girl who loves her father but feels rejected by him, a broken doll identified with Daddy, a husband whom the heroine cannot love because of the lingering subconscious attachment for her father...
...picture's greatest merit is its memorable types: the inarticulate young girl whose frozen, dangerous fear seems to choke her like a stone lodged in the throat; the nurse whose own mind has worked loose in the buffeting, jarring atmosphere of the asylum and who now wanders through her ward, forlornly keeping imaginary records...
Radcliffe basketball players tried out something new in girl's sports this week, a limited dribble permitting two bounces instead of the previous single one. Pending final decision by the Girl's Basketball Rules Commission, the Annex athletic department instituted the new procedure...
...will be slighted when it comes to Christmas dinner, she assured. Last year, not a single girl had to eat in a restaurant, for Radcliffe alumnae in the Boston area filled the breach...
Epps admitted that he had threatened two Harvard students and a girl with a 45 automatic on the night of November 20, and stated that his only loot was $7 taken from the couple. At the time, Frederick G. Torrey '49 and his date, Martha Bixler, daughter of the president of Colby College, reported a loss of $19. The other victim, Carl P. Josephson '51, claimed that $7 was stolen from...