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...does not have to come from California's San Fernando Valley, though indeed the subspecies Puella americana vallensis (PAV) was first identified in that beige outreach of Los Angeles. She can equally well be from some honker place like Lake Forest, Ill., or Longeyeland. She got to be called a Valley Girl because of the hot five-minute single record by that name in which Frank Zappa and his maximum brilliant 15-year-old daughter Moon Unit lampooned the San Fernando species and its tribal habits. Valley Girls are by no means mere pubescent versions of the California Girl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: How Toe-dully Max Is Their Valley | 9/27/1982 | See Source »

...friend observed, "a little capillary vein of-shall we call it satire? It breaks out when least expected." He was either very dull or very sharp with the ladies, they were never sure which. When gay Hannah Quincy coyly told him she knew some Latin and offered "Puella amat puer," John quickly countered: "Puella what? . . . The object of the verb takes the accusative, in Latin. If you are trying to say the boy loves the girl .. . Or do you mean, possibly, the girl loves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Great Lackluster | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

...Braggart Soldier" and his declining, but conjugating puella will try to deceive each other this spring in the first Latin play in the College since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: First Latin Play Since 1936 Boasts Plautus, Laughs, Girls | 3/18/1949 | See Source »

...MUSSET.Cum proterva Spes, petulans puella...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FROM THE FRENCH. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

SOPHOMORE fourth division Latin: "Telephum dives et lasciva puella occupavit," - "The rich and lascivious young maiden grasped the telephone." Mr. J. is reseated. - Courant...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

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