Word: girlish
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...Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance, her every girlish gesture. Shopgirls and Mayfair matrons read the story and-for just a moment-austerity England seems to be merrie England once again...
Last week Margaret's few close friends flocked by to hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked...
Mary Pickford, 55, and the Gish sisters, Dorothy, 51, and Lillian, 52, posed together at a Manhattan restaurant, looking not at all as if some 40 years had passed since they first brought girlish graces and golden curls to the early U.S. screen. Even Mary's dialogue sounded familiar: "We girls get together as often as we can. We belong to each other, in the never-never land and into tomorrow...
This time the four hoopskirted March girls are played by blonde June Allyson (Jo) in a red wig, brunette Elizabeth Taylor (Amy) in a blonde wig, Janet Leigh (Meg), and Margaret O'Brien (Beth). Though the faces have changed, the girlish flutter and flummery are still the same. Curled up in her cluttered Concord attic, tousle-headed Jo still writes, and weeps over her blood & thunder fiction. The romantic Meg still falls romantically in love, marries and has twins. Featherbrained Amy, as self-centered as ever and still suffering from the "degradations" of well-bred poverty, succeeds in catching...
...poets reciting. Here there are no equal but separate facilities provided, and nothing in the material warrants this limitation to Harvard undergraduates. Second, though the Radcliffe library may be stocked will all the requisite books this fact does not insure that the girls are adequately supplied, because our girlish system allows a few unscrupulous, students to foul up this lifeline of education. The honor system as applied to the library, invariably breaks down when the pressure is on. Radcliffe would have fewer library complaints if it introduced a rational system to central its books instead of an emotional one. Nancy...