Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lecturer, sleek-haired, glib Philosophy Professor V. N. Kolbanovsky, said: "Ugly psychological leftovers of bourgeois ideology concerning marriage and love still exist here. . . . Bourgeois marriages are business marriages where love gets dirtied and trampled. ... In bourgeois countries the working girl, in order to get and hold a job, often has to pass through the boss's bed. ... In the bourgeois state children are not wanted in great numbers...
...Angeles, a new career was begun by another flyer: Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington, famed in wartime as a Marine ace and in peacetime for his girl trouble (TIME, Jan. 21, 1946). Adventurous Pappy was now in shirts & ties, behind a haberdasher's counter. Said he: "I've got that old retailer's smile...
Allowed by the court to ex-Ziegfeld Girl Gladys Glad, out of the estate left by her late husband, Hollywood Producer Mark Hellinger: $4,000 a month, for living expenses...
Ruin on the Table. His still lifes at the Whitney might each have been assembled from a ruin and tied together with string -pipes, masks, torn letters, weather vanes and carnival prizes teetering on Victorian tables. Kuniyoshi's figure paintings all show the same girl (who resembles none of his models) with black bangs, pinched features, a slack, heavy body and long, almost painfully sensitive hands. She sits motionless and exhausted, her narrow dark eyes smudged with dismay, or wanders across desolate landscapes...
Last week the Theatre Guild gave the old girl a well-deserved birthday party. The Guild, almost broke when it backed Oklahoma!, owes much of its present position as the most prosperous showmaker on Broadway to the success of this show. A lot of people at the party also owed plenty to the birthday girl. For Choreographer Agnes de Mille and for Dick Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, she had set off a firecracker-string of Broadway successes. She had helped boost many of her onetime players (notably Celeste Holm, Joan McCracken, Bambi Linn, Mary Hatcher, Howard Da Silva, Pamela Britton...