Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of "Beauty and the Beast' (English Title) is the familiar one of the prince, enchanted into a hideous monster, who can regain his former state only through the true love of a girl. The Beauty is a girl of humble station and religious soul who is kept by the Beast in his castle. She penetrates the ugly coating of his appearance to feel first pity for the Beast, then real love-thus breaking the spell...
...demanded the prosecutor. There was nothing. He gestured toward the guards. Yoshiko, upon order, faced about and walked nine paces forward. A guard with a rifle came up behind her. "Kneel down," he shouted. The echo rang out from the prison wall. Yoshiko knelt with the poise of a girl being introduced at court. The guard raised his gun, fired one shot into the back of her head. Yoshiko pitched awkwardly on her face. The morning...
...Crown contended that the steward had strangled the girl and had disposed of the body to hide his crime...
...work. He sees almost no one except the handsome Russian woman, Livia Delectorskaya, who has been his chief model, housekeeper, secretary and protector for 15 years. Livia rounds up other models for the master-a hard job in provincially prudish Vence. Sometimes she returns with the 26-year-old girl who is the town's one harlot, who describes Matisse as "a wonderfully sweet old man, always chattering while I pose." Matisse avoids fellow artists ("I can't see many people nowadays"). But the old man loves to have long chats with the town carpenter, who says...
...plot of "Touch of the Times" stems from a factory worker's loss of his girl to a fellow worker. He seeks solace in flying a kite and remains apart. Soon the other factory workers follow suit, and everyone is flying kites. When the factory issues on edict against kite-flying, everyone goes back to his job except the hero, who just continues flying his kite and is immensely happy...