Word: girlish
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Simple, o'erbubbling girlish exuberance led Lynda Bird Johnson, 23, to her mama's bedroom door at three o'clock that August morning. When Mama wasn't there, she crept into her daddy's bedroom. "Who is it?" asked Lady Bird, waking up with a start, and in a moment the President woke up too. Then, as they guessed what Lynda Bird was driving at, the Johnsons hauled their eldest daughter into bed with them and listened to her tell the news of her decision to marry Chuck Robb. Now the story has been broken...
...Mouths. Throughout history, artists have been content to portray angels as slightly girlish young men in white robes and eagle-sized wings. The tradition does less than justice to some of the more majestic celestial creatures-especially those recorded in Islamic folklore. The Angel of Mohammed, for example, has 70,000 heads, each of which has 70,000 faces, each face having 70,000 mouths, each mouth 70,000 tongues, each tongue capable of speaking 70,000 languages-all the better to praise...
...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A rangy, clumsy 13-year-old goes off to Girl Guide camp to find a few friends, but finds herself instead. Along the way, Novelist Glyn, only 19, points out some of the hilariously muddled drills that the Guides perform with girlish intensity...
...UNICORN GIRL, by Caroline Glyn. A rangy, clumsy 13-year-old goes off to Girl Guide camp to find a few friends but finds herself instead. Along the way, Novelist Glyn, only 19 herself, points out some of the hilariously muddled drills that the Guides perform with girlish intensity...
...from a window, he testifies, "I'm sure that he wasn't on horseback, for no horse from the window came down." But of all the minor roles, Juliet Cunningham's Barbarina was best. Her fourth act cavatina ("I'ho perduta, me meschina") had just the right touch of girlish dolefulness...