Word: schoolgirlishly
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Looking far younger than her years, Mamie Eisenhower, surrounded by the Eisenhower clan, romped through her 60th birthday party at the White House. She happily browsed through a welter of gifts -cocktail napkins, stockings, a pair of earbobs from her namesake niece Mamie, a lifesize, schoolgirlish portrait of herself from the National Citizens for Ei senhower-Nixon. As messages poured in, Mamie Eisenhower's personal secretary, Mary Jane McCaffree, bragged: "She's getting more mail than the President today!" Asked how she felt about spending another four years in the White House, Mamie, while posing for pictures...
...from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern, like her stock stopper to a conversation she thinks silly: "Well, how dull...
...thrice-married young man with plenty of money, became a Divinite in Manhattan two years ago, was last year put under observation in Bellevue Hospital because he sent Postmaster General Farley certain obscene confessions as to the good Father Divine had done him. According to Miss Jewett, a schoolgirlish young lady whose story the Journal frontpaged daily last week, Hunt-"St. John the Revelator" in Divinese-converted her to belief in the Harlem godhead, presently seduced...
...first volume told of Mabel Dodge's unhappy childhood in a prosperous Buffalo family and of schoolgirlish infatuations In the U. S. and France. Second, European Experiences (TIME, Sept. 30, 1935) told of her first two marriages, of establishing a meeting-place for adventurous spirits in her villa in Florence, included droll accounts of how she almost had love affairs with an Italian chauffeur, a British officer, as well as with poets, painters and poseurs of varied talent. Written with a queer sort of frozen-faced malice that did not reveal what the author thought of the highbrow foolishness...
...bookworms and palpitating professors trundle a block out of Harvard Square before trusting their frail bodies to the metal maelstrom, but as for us, the vast majority, let us still enjoy the thrills of brushing a fleeting fender with our coat tails in this pedestrian's paradise. May all schoolgirlish reference to those terrifying automobiles in Harvard Square be dropped forever from the masculine columns of the CRIMSON. F. M. Rivinus...