Word: girlish
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That I walk with a sweet and girlish...
...looked at the monotonous lines of smiling faces he moodily reflected on the custom of bringing girls to football games. He was not alone in these reflections, however, for when Sebbie returned, his upper lip painted in the moustache left by an orange drink, some of the girlish smiles above him turned to frowns and giggles. There dawned the uneasy suspicion in Vag that he was being marked as a pervert...
...This Be Me?" asked Cinemactress Sophia Loren in Hearst's Sunday-supplement American Weekly. Telling all in girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect...
Then the night life begins. At the cafes of "Belgique Joyeuse" the tourists drink and dance in a model old-time Belgian village. The amusement park is a medley of circus barkers and girlish squeals...
Smith gave the visiting Pierians a different reception--"What a sea of girlish faces ... we scraped or blew as we had never scraped or blown in previous time." Radcliffe, however, did not inspire such praise. In fact the Pierians considered play at the Annex more a matter of duty than anything else...