Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then the night life begins. At the cafes of "Belgique Joyeuse" the tourists drink and dance in a model old-time Belgian village. The amusement park is a medley of circus barkers and girlish squeals...
Smith gave the visiting Pierians a different reception--"What a sea of girlish faces ... we scraped or blew as we had never scraped or blown in previous time." Radcliffe, however, did not inspire such praise. In fact the Pierians considered play at the Annex more a matter of duty than anything else...
With due respect to the abilities of both actresses, they could hardly miss. As written, the part has plenty of red blood in it, and it is colored up still further by the fact that Actress Strasberg, with girlish charm and intensity, opens her veins into almost every line...
...longest-running team in show business began applying the brakes last week in Hollywood. After 36 years as the better half of Burns and Allen, pretty, professionally giddy Gracie, still slim and girlish at 53, announced that she will retire in May. "I'm going to sleep for six months," she said. "I'm going to invite people in to dinner, and visit my grandchildren. And I'm going to clean out the bureau drawers...
Louis Napoleon, himself an inveterate liar, was not told about all these girlish pranks, nor was he interested in them. For two idyllic years Miss Howard sheltered Louis in her London house, financed his exile's finaglings and plottings. When Louis Philippe was deposed and France became a republic again, Miss Howard followed her lover to Paris, backed his successful campaign to make himself President. In 1852, after "throwing everything she possessed into the fray," she heard her Louis proclaimed Emperor...