Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unanimous vote of the 18-girl Student Council, Radcliffe's Student Government chartered an Annex branch of the American Youth for Democracy and threw open 'Cliffe doors to any qualified political club which petitions for recognition...
...trekked to Hanover last month for the Dartmouth Carnival, where every girl who has ever slipped on an icy sidewalk endeavors to impress her hosts with a camelback spin. Barbara looks a back on that weekend with whole-fouled pleasure. "I left my skates at Radcliffe," she says happily, "and didn't even see the ice. It was my first real vacation in years...
Polly Seliger's "The Bond" is not so effective, yet its complete sincerity breaks through the fumbling descriptions and little awkwardness. The bend is between a mother and her small girl, and the story is refreshing in its lack of any sort of artifice and in its genuine communication of the child's knowledge that she is loved. Miss Seliger makes the mistake in marring the directness of her story by a final twist, but even that might be excused on the grounds that it is the child's realization that she will never again to be loved so completely...
...Girl lisa (Warner). Sam (Joan of Lorraine) Wanamaker's screen debut, with Lilli Palmer as his girl. They are Hungarian immigrants in New York in the era of Teddy Roosevelt (who also gets into the act). Some nice work by the leads, but most of this comedy drama is neither comical nor dramatic...
...literary enthusiasm. Yet he continued to suffer from the curse of his shyness; he self-consciously reports a search for "someone . . . with whom I can smoke a pipe and talk of Matthew Arnold." Robinson was aware of his social limitations; while visiting a professor's house, a girl took him under her wing, but "I do not think she was trying to seduce me . . . her eyes were too large and earnest." Never had Robinson known happier days; it is doubtful if he ever again knew such happy ones...