Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...poor laborers began to arrive in Glasgow. Now 85,000 human beings cram its 252 acres. In many of its tenements 30 people share a single doorless toilet, and the odor of garbage hangs heavy in the stairwells. There is an undertaker on every other block. A Gorbals girl summed up life there: "The cat sleeps with us. If a rat runs over the blankets, he springs...
Satira's old Chicago nightclub boss gleefully announced plans for "big bookings in New York." A competitor offered to put Satira on a double bill with Mee's widow, another "exotic dancer." Said Widow Mee: "I don't have any hard feeling for that girl, but after...
...over afternoon milkshakes at the embassy canteen. They were seen together at the movies (where a photographer snapped them seated next to Clement Attlee's son Martin-see cut). What excited the gossips was the hint of a triangle: the tall young Guardsman was supposed to have another girl-Princess Margaret, who would be coming back to London soon from her summer holiday...
Today's young woman considers herself a lot more sophisticated than her counterparts of the past, but she is no more proof against the "roguery and hypocrisy of seducers." So warned Pope Pius, who explained that the modern girl "believes herself able, with impunity, to read everything, to see everything, to try everything . . . She is disarmed before the peril...
...young Edward's sake, Arnold Holt commits arson, practices blackmail, ditches his mistress, makes a wreck of his wife, blarneys the girl Edward has got with child. Edward himself, not much good to begin with and monstrously spoiled, turns into a wastrel who is killed...