Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...icky." Frederika took the firm stand that anybody who thought a book like that was icky was pretty darn icky herself. A more serious controversy raged over the politics of Adolf Hitler, whom Freddy at first defended with all the stridency of most German youth of her generation. Girlish arguments over Hitler occasionally ended in tears at Miss May's, but as the school year went on, Frederika read articles in British and U.S. magazines about the Nazi regime. At the end of the year, she was full of doubts. "Freddy was terribly interested in world affairs," says...
Making her movie debut in the title role, girlish, pixyish Metropolitan Opera Star Patrice Munsel, 27, is not very successful in re-creating Melba's tempestuous personality. But Songstress Munsel is handsomely gowned and in good voice as she sings a wide selection of numbers, from the Mad Scene in Lucia to Comin' Thro...
...decision was final and official. Philip himself was said to have been especially pleased at the girlish look of his wife in the design on the coin, and the stamp portrait (taken from a recent photograph) was specially chosen, according to Postmaster General Earl de la Warr, "to indicate our pride in having a young Queen." But all this did not prevent Britain's man (and woman) in the street from exercising his ancient prerogative of free criticism...
...Queen's speach was handed to her. As she went unhesitatingly through the long dull document, written, as such speeches always are, by her ministers, many of those listening detected a new note of authority in the voice that had recently seemed high-pitched and girlish. The speech itself was a simple Tory proclamation of the Tory intention of preserving peace, saving the economy and denationalizing steel. The triumph was the Queen's, not her speechwriters...
...foot. It also has some effective-on-the-spot scenes filmed along the Munich-Salzburg Autobahn and at Hitler's bombed-out Adlerhorst at Berchtesgaden. Gene Kelly, without his dancing shoes, turns out to be a relaxed, likable actor, and wide-eyed Pier Angeli brings an appealing, girlish charm to the role of the Fraulein. But The Devil Makes Three makes little more than another run-of-the-movie-mill thriller out of its theme...