Word: girlishly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...neither veiled, were the only Indian female delegates at the Conference. In silken robes of gold & grey dramatic Mrs. Subbarayan strode regally in, fingers blazing rings, arms tinkling bracelets, a large diamond twinkling from a setting which pierced the left side of her Hindu nose. Exactly opposite in type, girlish, robed in simple blue, was the Begum Shaw Nawaz, daughter of a Mohammedan delegate...
...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...
...first Music Box Revue. His Majesty's Car is her twelfth theatrical engagement, including one year with the Theatre Guild. She has no hobbies, one wirehaired fox terrier, one husband-Playwright Austin Parker (Week End), Cornellian, Wartime ambulance driver, flyer in the Lafayette Escadrille. She looks girlish onstage, thirtyish off (exact age secret...