Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That pretty much happened last week to the Malvolio of Arnold Moss which, after a promising start, grew broader at every appearance. The production in general was forthright, with Frances Reid attractively girlish, even where she should have been boyish, as Viola. If the evening wasn't a great deal of fun, it was perhaps because a forthright Twelfth Night is often little better than a fourth-rate one. The situation calls for magic...
...fudge sauce). They play bebop records by the hour, but know more about Bach than any Wellesley generation before them. They are coldly practical about some things, but will gladly dress themselves up as toy dolls, rabbits or gypsies for annual Tree Day. They are fearful of seeming too girlish, but will happily make themselves look aged 13 running their annual hoop race. Wealthy girls pretend to be living on a shoestring; grinds pretend to be ladies of leisure. To be fashionable, one must be casual...
Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...
...Princess Margaret's particular task to extend her hand to passee old Dame Society, and make it seem that everyone is having a ripping time at her parties. Newspapers write about a party that Margaret goes to; they report her every dance, her every glance, her every girlish gesture. Shopgirls and Mayfair matrons read the story and-for just a moment-austerity England seems to be merrie England once again...
Last week Margaret's few close friends flocked by to hear about her trip and perhaps persuade her to do a really sharp imitation of some pompous continental dignitary. But before the girlish giggles began, they still remembered to call her "ma'am," for Margaret is the daughter of the King. No matter how seductively the moon may shine as she drives home from a party, there can be no stolen kisses; a Scotland Yard man is always present to see her indoors; often a lady-in-waiting is at the door, too. As one young Briton remarked...