Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sure I've often pitied a poor girl," said Mrs. Warren, speaking from experience, "tired out and in low spirits, having to please some man . . . [Still] it's far better than any other employment open...
Illustrator George Petty pooh-poohed the vaunted French chic: "When the middle-class French girl dresses up, she undresses. Her costume is a display of sex . . . whereas the healthy outdoor life of the American girl gives her natural radiance, which is the true attraction of the opposite...
...Cote d'Azur. Roger Chapelain-Midy (45) had contributed an end-of-holiday picture that was one of the hits of the exhibition. Entitled The Month of September, it was a subtle yet straightforward portrait-done in the rich, muted colors of honey and white grapes-of a girl sitting in a walled garden with its last fruits in her lap. Ex-Cubist François Desnoyer was represented by a solidly constructed harbor picture in colors as bright and brassy as boat whistles...
...search will never cease For the girl on the Police Gazette. For the pretty young brunette On the pink Police Gazette...
This week the 104-year-old Gazette, now a pale, thin shade of its once fat and enormously profitable self, got a new girl. Unlike the heroine of Irving Berlin's hit of the '30s, she was no brunette chorus cutie to adorn its cover, but a long-legged, thirtyish blonde newshen to be its boss...