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Word: girling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was no mistaking his interest in Marilyn Miller, the loveliest Ziegfeld girl of them all. "I would prefer," wrote Billie, "to think that Flo was merely fascinated by Marilyn Miller, but ... he idolized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...show [Charleston, 1822, a Theatre Guild production] that must open on Thursday." Next day he was out on $2,500 bail, but would not open in the show. A Guild spokesman thought things were "too confused," and the Guild hired a replacement. Back in Salina, the girl was being packed off to a school for delinquents as she protested: "I'm not sorry. I love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Busy Life | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Agnes remembers herself as a plump and awkward little girl, who liked to scurry about the house, at the age of seven, imitating Pavlova. Her father, Playwright William de Mille (a brother of Producer Cecil B.), thought her imitation preposterous. Agnes could be anything she wanted, he said-except a dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homegrown | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

That night in 1942, Choreographer Agnes George de Mille got her first taste of success. Last week, when the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo again, with Agnes dancing as the Cowgirl, the boots and blue-jeans no longer seemed strange; her wistful story of a girl who could rope a steer, but not a man, had the feel of a familiar classic. One reason: Theatre Guild scouts had seen that first performance of Rodeo and persuaded Agnes to do the dance numbers for Oklahoma! Then followed One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Allegro and this year's brilliant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Homegrown | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

...parts in two unreleased films are also villainous. In her career of screen wickedness, she has already been strangled, shot, run over by a car and sentenced to prison (as a bad girl must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

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