Word: girlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Berlin 25 years ago Claire Dux was singing Wagnerian roles as few others could. When Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier was first put on in London she enchanted Covent Garden with her girlish Sophie. Next year Londoners heard her again in The Magic Flute, called her one of the best Mozart singers alive. She had three glorious years in Oslo, Stockholm and Copenhagen...
...Peiping last week girlish hearts fluttered fast as news went round that an envoy of 30-year-old Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo, formerly known as Henry Pu Yi ("Boy Emperor of China"), had arrived from Hsinking, the Manchukuan capital, to inspect 100 "most beautiful and healthy girls between the ages of 15 and 20," who had been assembled by Chinese marriage brokers of renown and unblemished reputation. The envoy was performing this agreeable duty because the Emperor, whose present union with the beautiful Empress Peng Chi has not been blessed, is looking for one or more sturdy concubines...
Actress Sullavan, whose few metropolitan stage parts disclosed her as a young lady with a strained voice and a forced, girlish delivery, has not changed much in the three years she has been in Hollywood...
Having inherited $35,000,000 from her second husband, Shipping Magnate Sir Robert Paterson Houston, Dame Fanny Lucy Houston can afford to indulge her girlish sense of fun, her matronly sense of Patriotism. In 1931 her sudden gift of $500,000 enabled Britain's aviators to enter and win-the final Schneider Trophy...
...love with a queen. Ruler of a small country famed for its tyranny, she is on a visit arranging a loan; Ben meets her by accident while she is sneaking a last cigaret before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions, decides to fake suicide, swims...