Word: girlish
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...unhappy wives compensate themselves for their connubial discontent by going on shopping sprees; by taking up art, religion, morals, culture, society, politics; by being cute, girlish and kittenish, by nagging, by yammering...
...knew where she was or what she was doing, only Claudine's sturdy female common sense kept her out of serious scrapes. As it was, she had some minor adventures which a mother would have deprecated. When Claudine met her cousin Marcel she thought he was beautiful but girlish, soon discovered she was absolutely right. Her old schoolmate and adorer Luce turned up in Paris, living in the lap of sinful luxury. When Claudine visited Luce's apartment she was first impressed, then disgusted. She discovered the reason why young girls did not go about Paris un attended...
...good standing, had she wrecked the car as an act of sabotage to hinder the success of the Five Year Plan, she would either have been shot or exiled to a Siberian lumber camp. Because she was a true proletarian, had killed one and injured six only in a girlish madcap mood, she got off with 18 months in jail. She did not get off without a scolding. Editorialized a Moscow newspaper...
Chaplin films there are touches of smut: Chaplin as a busy street cleaner seeing an endless troop of mules, hurrying in the opposite direction, only to meet an elephant; Chaplin acting girlish toward a prize fighter stripping for battle...
...studied drama at Max Reinhardt's school and played in the German version of Broadway when von Sternberg put her on contract. He said: "Thank God you are not like the American actresses. You can make more than three faces." Mysterious on the screen, she is plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until she came on the set, then made her repeat them after him until...