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Word: hoydens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tiddledy-winkers went down to inglorious defeat before the Hoyden College girls, who winked their way to victory in one of the most bitterly contested tipples of the century. Crimson tiddlers were badly handicapped with the loss of Tid Fingers who recently blistered and cramped his pitching thumb from turning pages, while studying for his hour exams...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINKERS TWIDDLE OUT | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

However, Harvard's wonder, the armless Joe Sockit, demonstrated the remarkable feat of running up a championship record with his toes. It was reported that Hoyden's marvel, Purple O'Malley, was a ringer, and that she arrived for the Harvard game after playing in a professional contest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WINKERS TWIDDLE OUT | 4/1/1938 | See Source »

...Every girl--colleen, pardon me -- is a type; if she's rude, she is a hoyden; if lewd, a minx; if lovely, a nymph; if lovely and black-eyed, a houri (that comes from an Arabian word, he parenthesized with a smack of his lips). Now, you may think there is no difference between a vixen, for which are wrongly substituted the obsolete words 'virago' and 'termagant,' and a shrew. But there is! A shrew is always a brawling woman, while a vixen is merely bad-tempered...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 6/1/1937 | See Source »

...large cast there were no individual stars, all playing their parts to perfection. Mr. Jaffee was a very vain and effeminate villain, pursuing the beauteous Miss Hoyden (Mr. Cummin), who did not care to whom she surrendered her irksome virginity. Mr. Gross made a handsome young hero, while Mr. Gaggin was a robust father of the heroine. Playing his part with feeling, Mr. Kuhlke made a fine man of doubtful virility. Also not to be forgotten were Mr. Rabenold, who was perfect as the hero's young servant, and Mr. Humphreys, who made a vigorous old nurse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leverett Comedy Receives An Enthusiastic Reception | 3/19/1935 | See Source »

...Novelty Fashion (Lord Foppington) will be played by Harold B. Jaffee '36; Young Fashion, his brother, by Mason W. Gross 1G; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey, a country gentleman, by Verner S. Gaggin '35; Miss Hoyden, daughter of Sir Tunbelly, by Robert I. Cummin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Virtue in Danger' Leverett House Annual Play, Exposes Society of William and Mary's England | 3/15/1935 | See Source »

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