Word: kittenish
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Until Dr. Phelps's memory mends, "Miss Tiverton" will serve. The lady's second offering fully merits the company of her first. Maidens revolt in every third novel these days but here is a maiden whose technique is neither kittenish nor hoydenish. Motherless Letty Monckton is a British country gentlewoman with as much poise as poetry about her. Her flight from the bosom of Moncktonism?father, manor, cousins, suitor ?to the humbler hearth and home of Andrew Bullen, tweeded biologist, is not like the flapping of a decapitated chicken but like the career of a startled teal, which will...
...clear winter midnight last week, a patrolman standing in the shadow of a doorway on West 42nd St., Manhattan, saw a figure proceeding irregularly toward him, now with a kittenish skip, now with a wobbling adaptation of a popular dance-step, now with a stride that sagged curiously sideways. The patrolman stepped out of shadow. The night-wanderer raised a hand in genial recognition...
...Yale men are not as hopelessly namby-pamby as the two undergraduates in the first act who slap, each other on the back and begin all their remarks with "Well, you know, old man".... Messrs. Glibert and Morgan farther removed this dialogue from the sublime by the would-be kittenish manner in which they threw boxing gloves at each other, always taking the greatest pains to miss...
MEET THE WIFE? A kittenish wife plays perkily with two husbands instead of the usual ball of yarn...