Word: girling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, under a huge canopy of festive lights paid for by the Giornale, Trasteverini thronged happily to the feast. The sponsors had discarded an original plan to crown as "Miss Vino" the Trastevere girl who could drink the most wine, thought it would be even more imprudent to hold a regular beauty contest. "The first," explained a committeeman, "would not be dignified in these times; the second would be too dangerous, because there are too many girls in Trastevere who are the most beautiful...
...whom were members of the Communist-run General Confederation of Labor, were also supported by the Roman Catholic French Confederation of Christian Workers. They were striking for a raise of 15 francs (4½?) an hour. At an indignation meeting in the Bourse du Travail, a dark-haired Lanvin girl excitedly waved her pay envelope, showing 6,138 francs (about $18) for two weeks' work, and yelled: "I've got to support my mother with that!" Other girls showed mimeographed letters sent by their bosses warning them to return-or else. In front of one shop, a bunch...
...called Communists; their womenfolk usually became his mistresses. They had little choice, for Dimitrios had power enough, if they resisted, to bring harm to their hornes, their children or their cornfields. Recently, the situation was complicated by the fact that Dimitrios fell in love with his son's girl. He solved that problem, as the court-martial investigation showed, by denouncing his wife and son to the Communist guerrillas as "fascists." The guerrillas killed both. Dimitrios married the girl and, as a good patriot, renamed her Frederika, after Greece's Queen...
After searching high & low these many years, Illustrator George Petty at last found in Screen Star Joan Caulfield (height, 5 ft. 5 in.; weight, 119 lbs.; waist, 25 in.; bust, 35½ in.) the perfect model for his once-famed Petty Girl, promptly set to work sketching her. By an astounding coincidence, Joan was hard at work on a new movie-The Petty Girl...
...pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...