Word: kittenish
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...sounded like a monster scoop when Ladies' Home Journal, kittenish, leggy, eagerly competitive these days under the editorship of Loring Ashley Schuler, announced that it had cornered the Paris pattern field. Magazines of massive circulation are dedicated to the serious business of dressing U. S. women in Paris clothes. Competing with Ladies' Home Journal (circulation 2,531,287) are Pictorial Review (2,459,750), McCall's (2,300,387), Delineator (1,511,573), Vogue (141,424), Harper's Bazaar...
...Carnegie Hall, as if for Kreisler or Paderewski, a great crowd gathered. Its chief motive seemed to be curiosity. Its reward was an exhibition of incredibly bad singing. But few seemed to mind. The bulk of the audience applauded loudly, encouraged the kittenish Walska ways, the heaving surface sorrows, until the few real friends of music present were as mortified for their fellow listeners as for the performer...
...trying to be important, was unoriginal and dull. But with An American in Paris he has done better and dared to be himself in the presence of such betters as Wagner and Cesar Franck. Only Walter Damrosch seemed out of character at the concert last week. His conducting was kittenish, suggestive somehow of an old man out with a chorus girl who would like to make a whirl and does not quite know...
...raised above Broadway. By September, usually, the first hit has arrived in town; the streets off Times Square are crammed with stage folk who hope this winter not to play Des Moines; the dramatic critics, yellow and sick from uncustomary contact with the sun, are once more being kittenish on the keys. At the centre of all this glittering activity are the producers; it depends upon them whether the new year shall be tawdry or delightful...
...married to a rich banker. Finding in his library a copy of Boccaccio's stories made doubly suggestive by "piquant illustrations," she reads them greedily. This, as first act rhetoric has drilled the audience to expect, produces a potent effect on the cool bride; she becomes coy, passionate, kittenish. The dialogue is a rigid translation from the Italian; like the direction and the acting, it is excessively clumsy...