Word: girlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of a number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when...
When President Chiang Kai-shek can snatch time to go home from China's everlasting wars, he goes to the world's daintiest First Lady, to girlish Mei-ling (née Soong*). who went to Wellesley, bangs her hair like a Victorian debutante, adores jade and jewels, is Methodistly devout. Last week First Lady Mei-ling again complied with a request she seldom refuses -the urgent request of a visiting Wellesley alumna for audience. Audience with China's First Lady is always at tea. Tea was served last week in the First Lady's small...
...large, reddish, blue-eyed, friendly. Buxom and fair-haired, she speaks in an accent which is neither aristocratic nor cockney, almost giggles when she smiles. Not noisily exotic, like Lili de Alvarez, nor glumly beautiful, like Mrs. Moody, she is described by her friends with indefinite adjectives-"attractive," "unspoiled," "girlish...
...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...