Word: girlish
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...Estelle Winwood encourages his impudence with important blurts and wabbles, including the removal of her shoes. To Fay Bainter, is allotted the task of growing more dignified and lady like with every gulp. All this consumes the second act. A first tells how these impeccable and bosom friends had girlish love affairs with the same man. The man is coming back, also their husbands. In the third act they have headaches. Solemn witnesses will deem the second act a disaster; others a delight. The rest matters scarcely...
Madame Pompadour. Dorothy Gish flickered to fame as a saucy heroine of the common people. Now, snatched from her natural background, she is seen in 18th Century regalia exercising shop girlish charms to enslave King Louis XV of France. As might have been predicted by pessimists, the Mme. Pompadour of the infant industry is no resourceful siren but a sweet, good lass in love with a poor artist. It was Fate which pushed her into a palace...
...Tommy" is about as sweet, simple and girlish as a graduate of the Skowhegan Female Seminary, and its success in New York seems assured. Before it changes its name again for Broadway consumption, and you lose sight of Peg go and see the reason for the Harvard attendance at the Repertory last year...
...that she is a girl apart. She's your daughter. Whose else." Her curly head is full of girlish sense and nonsense. Her toes itch to beat out the latest dance rhythm. She's alive to every urge of wholesome happy youth...
...thirteen, this time from Lynn has proclaimed her muse. Singing not of tenements and traffic but of field mice and clocks of loons, the shoe city Sappho strikes a pastoral note truly becoming in one of her age. One stanza from her "Autumn" shows how nature has fired her girlish genius. "Flocks of loons and coots and mallows Flying southward by the score...