Word: girls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...article on the British schoolgirl's uniform annoyed me intensely. There is nothing smarter than a box-pleated gym slip, fresh white blouse and colored tie. True, the stockings are not glamorous, but think of the English climate. Give me the English schoolgirl type to the overpainted sweater girl and sloppy bobby-soxer of the States...
Stage Struck. Local girl making good on Broadway-the hard way; with Susan Strasberg, Henry Fonda (TIME, April...
...bride, in the grip of a suicidal depression, may head for the deep six, and one day she literally does take a leap into San Francisco Bay. Detective Stewart saves her from the drink and takes her home for coffee-with sugar. Soon he is crazy about the girl, but the girl is apparently just plain crazy. One day she eludes him and jumps to her death from the nearest steeple...
With these ghastly examples before him, Hero Hurst is naturally nervous when he goes out on his first date with a gentile girl and is only partly reassured to discover "how little difference there was between the" feel of a Jewish girl's thigh and that of a shickseh." He capitulates completely in his next encounter with a shickseh, marries her, fathers two sons and moves to a broad-minded suburb to live in the material bliss that is the reward of the truly assimilated. But the past will not down. A great deal of complicated, coincidental plotting brings...
...soon wore "red trousers and bobbed hair," wrote surrealist poems that he knew were nonsensical ("one funny one went through three anthologies"), graduated to a mental hospital where he was classed as "schizophrenic." For a while he lived with a Scotch-Greek girl of 17, who took baths "with an old man for ten shillings, and bought [our] food...