Word: hoydens
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...Lens, near Lille, France another case of metamorphosed hermaphroditism came to light last week. The affair began last Christmas when the parish priest noticed that Alice Henriette Acces, 16, member of the girls' choir, had imperceptibly changed from hoyden to boor. Henriette had a thin mustache. Her voice was mannish. And, were she dressed in boy's clothes, she would be indistinguishable from the bantlings of the mine where her father worked...
Editor Joseph Medill Patterson a new comic of his own called "Little Orphan Otto." Editor Patterson, an enthusiastic expert on comics, changed Otto to Annie, started her on her way in the Tribune in August 1925. Annie was a curly-haired hoyden about 12 years old, incredibly wise, philosophical, capable, generous. In due time Cartoonist Gray lifted her from squalor by letting her be adopted by a fabulously rich, middle-aged character named Daddy Warbucks. Daddy had fleets of yachts and airplanes, platoons of liveried footmen around his palatial home, wore a dinner jacket and gleaming diamond shirt stud...
...Hepburn characterization of Trigger as a queer, hot-tempered warmhearted hoyden is wasted on the picture. In mood and manner Spitfire belongs to an obsolete era in the cinema. Typical shot: Trigger describing a lout who has tried to kiss her as "consared Son of Satan...
King Edward VII would have relished Mae West. Last week the salons of Paris couturiers were heavy with a nostalgia Edwardian or earlier. Sumptuously they ushered in winter modes inspired by the fun which a few ultrasmart Parisiennes have lately had dressing up like the opulent hoyden Miss West created on the stage as Diamond Lil, recreated on the screen as Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (TIME...
...Sanger strain is not strong in Caryl it is nonetheless there. He has its troubled spirit if he has not its fire. Gemma, the little hoyden that Sebastian has picked up and lives with contentedly and illegally, knows it is there before the others do. She provoked it one afternoon in the Dolomites. Gemma knows, too, that Caryl's solidness is a much-needed compensation to Sebastian's brilliance. When Sebastian goes off to Paris to conduct the opening of his first ballet, he leaves Gemma in an ecstasy of fear for her sick baby and of anger...