Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best of Intentions begins as Joe is planning a love affair with a girl he met at the opera. The problem is: how to get out of the house on Sunday without the whole family finding...
...pretty hard boyhood. He wet his pants on his first day at school, and after his First Communion was sick as soon as he got back to his pew. When the little girl around the corner told him that Butch O'Hara had tried to kiss her, Joe said, "Somebody's gonna teach that big dope a lesson." She told Butch. The next time Joe saw Butch, Butch began to beat him up. But something strange happened: another boy got mixed up in the fight and the next Joe heard about it, Butch was in the hospital with...
...crowning blow to Joe's self-esteem was that the girl he loved in his boyhood became a popular novelist and wrote a book in which he found himself pictured as a tough guy, with quaint phrases and vague literary aspirations. It was true enough to make him wince and wrong enough to make him sore. Readers may feel somewhat the same way about The Best of Intentions. Its artificiality lies in the vagueness and unreality of Joe Moreton apart from, his adolescent and middle-aged embarrassments. The latter may have been real enough, but they are less than...
...When I want to kiss a girl," he said, "I want to kiss a girl, and not Lammot Du Pont...
...greatest dissentient were a Briggs Hall freshman and a Howell-House sophomore. Said the girl "People who want to neck just shouldn't were lipstick--it's messy; it gets him messed up; it gets you messed up. It takes all the romance...