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Word: girling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vaudeville portion of the program, the acorbats, impresonater, and muscle squad, are as fine a group of performers in their lines as I have ever seen. Particularly incredible is a young blonde girl-acrobat who gets thrown around by her three male companions with such abandon that her hair is consistently dragging along the floor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Sporting Scene | 4/20/1949 | See Source »

...There is nothing," declared the prosecuting attorney, "to prevent boys and girls at any hour from visiting each other in their bedrooms, and it is done." The court was told by the prosecutor that once, when one teen-aged boy dared another to seduce the school's middle-aged housekeeper, Assistant Headmaster Edward Reynolds had cracked, "I'll bet you a pound to a penny that you don't." Another witness said that the children were forever talking about sex in "short Anglo-Saxon words." A former matron at the school admitted having given one girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: How Progressive Can You Get? | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Find God . . . Right in There," screamed the bannerline, and the curly-haired little girl in the ad pointed straight at the title, The Lawton Story, "A Picture That Does Something to Your Soul." As the film went into release last week, the two live-wire Ohio promoters who made it were confident that religion would serve them as well at the box office as sex has done since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...being shown in Latin America and Australia and still going strong in the U.S., Mom and Dad is a knowing mixture of syrup, spice and corn. It blends scenes of childbirth, a Caesarean operation and the ravages of venereal disease into a tear-squeezing fable about a high-school girl who "got into trouble" because her parents kept her in ignorance. (Catch lines: "It Happens Somewhere Every Night," "Millions Learned the Hard Way, But You Can See the Facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Something for the Soul | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...Girl's and Miss Annin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe Picks New Dorm Head | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

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