Word: janet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Texaco Star Theater (Sat. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Jimmy Durante, Guest Janet Blair...
...talkies" gained popularity in 1930, star Janet Gaynor appeared in a sentimental story about a prostitute which ran for weeks at the UT. This same story, entitled "Street Angel," this year was converted into a musical comedy and two weeks ago opened on Broadway--but without a similar success...
...another experiment with two Radcliffe girls, Janet, the experimenter's informant, was asked to become friends with Dora even though Dora, as Janet described her, had a "horrible voice", asked "stupid questions", and "did things you wouldn't mind seeing her do in front of a boy, but that you hate to see in front of a girl...
...Janet began the experiment by engaging in conversation with her "victim" and after a week concluded that Dora needed only a little "understanding". She had discovered, among other things, that in high school Dora had had a nervous breakdown because of family problems...
After invitations to square dances at Memorial Hall, Language Club meetings, and some instruction on crocheting, Janet found that she could tolerate Dora's voice, and that she did not consider her really "affected", She had, she told the experimenter, grown to like Dora, but she couldn't tell whether Dora actually liked...