Word: girlishness
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...Your fulsome article provided Londoners with a good laugh but hardly gave a realistic impression of the place. Visitors find the same old dingy streets and grimy restaurants, and while there are youths going about with girlish hair styles and outlandish clothes, you can hardly expect us to be proud of such weirdies. Girls, except for women street-cleaners, do not wear plastic suits. Carnaby Street is not a new phenomenon; it has catered to the chorus-boy type for years. New York is the real swinging city...
...some, the long beatlemanes and Carnaby Street clothes for boys do smack of something girlish. Nonsense, protested Social Critic Marya Mannes, 61, in a commentary delivered at a Manhattan conference of the National Council of Women. "Hair is both manly and womanly, and the shock of hair on a boy is far more virile and decorative than the crew cut," she said. As for the fashions, observed Marya, who dresses sedately enough herself: "If it's sometimes hard to tell boys and girls apart in boots and sweaters and pants and hair -well, to some of us they spell...
...Danner: "I like a girl who is girlish and polite...
...high school senior from Colorado Springs. Shy and a homebody, daughter of an itinerant newspaper pressman, Peggy did not even learn to skate until she was nine. When she won her first (of three) U.S. championship in 1964, experts were as impressed by her girlish grace and pleasant looks as by her acrobatics and technique. "Peggy is not a fiery skater," said Dick Button. "She is a delicate lady on the ice." And at Davos, it figured to take more than delicacy to surpass Canada's defending champion Petra Burka. Only four times in the 60-year history...
...only thing that could possibly cause umbrage about Mrs. Crosby's performance was that Miss Miller said she was too girlish and too pretty to be "Peter Pan"-which is sort of a mixed criticism, I'm sure you'll agree...