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...sophistication outwardly evident in a billowing grey mop and man-about-town monocle, Francophile Janet Planner still has a certain girlish naïveté. Her friends remember that when Vanity Fair asked her for a series on French murders she objected that Americans wouldn't be interested because French murders were so different from American murders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genetics | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Yearning, slightly throaty Cornell, with her great eyes and grand manner, is chiefly a personality; Helen Hayes, deft and versatile, is every inch an actress. Cornell, in a sense, never seemed young; Helen Hayes rose to fame in girlish and flapper parts, came of age as Maggie Wylie in a revival of What Every Woman Knows, slowly gained enough poise and stature to triumph thrice as queen-as Cleopatra, Mary of Scotland, Victoria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Grandma Writes a Book | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Alan Littlewood at 21 is a frail, girlish-featured, vain, romantic poetaster, with an acute inferiority complex and a touch of t.b. Mrs. Pawle, blonde, voluptuous, thirtyish, nymphomaniac, is the wife of Alan's doctor, who is a lanky, cynical sadist. The scene of Alan's seduction ought to sell at least a couple of thousand copies. The preliminary scenes are as satirical as they are authoritative; whether they amuse or disgust depends on the reader. But if the reader is amused by the last half of the story, it is no fault of Author lies. From...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Seventh Commandment | 10/30/1939 | See Source »

...Dickens "by heart," had "toyed with" the historical writings of Josephus, Motley, Gibbon. She read "no mushy children's books." Forty-two years ago she began writing a column of advice to the lovelorn which was not perceptibly influenced by any of the writers who had formed her girlish mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Did I Do Wrong? | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Even as recently as last April, Vag welcomed spring with a light-hearted allegory. It was all voices on the river. Feminine, always tinkling girlish sounds and sights. Bicycles and boats. Taut canvas that at last could relax and fold down to make open and animate cars of winter-closed vehicles. A moon no longer cold. Grass that responded with an up-surge at each footfall, lightening, replying: move--move faster, move guilty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/19/1939 | See Source »

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