Word: schoolgirlisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a fresh tennis ball, Cress loses a little fuzz after each encounter with life, but goes on bouncing through another dozen escapades, all readable, if predictable. There is the schoolgirl crush on her piano teacher, a puppy-love phase with the spindly, spectacled whiz of the Latin class, the first cigarettes, first house parties, first pimples...
...tricky double operation. Now he spends eight or nine hours a day on horseback. There was also a Pennsylvanian who startled the doctors by saying that he had gone back to work in the coal mines. "Hell," he said, "that's the only job I know." In schoolgirl high spirits and 40 pounds heavier was Judith Schmidt, 12, who had been chilled in a freezer before her operation (TIME...
With all the hesitancy of a schoolgirl on her first date, the British government last week prepared to embrace commercial TV. But before anyone's hair could get mussed, the government laid down strict rules of conduct in a white paper: 1) All TV stations accepting commercials must be owned and operated by a public corporation similar to the existing British Broadcasting Corp. 2) The new corporation will sell time to private companies, and they, in turn, may sell advertising. 3) The corporation has the right to examine all scripts in advance, to forbid the broadcasting of "specified classes...
...switchboard, "I am very nearly better." Miss Norway repeatedly tried to sneak out of her hotel to have dates-a direct violation of the contest rules-but was foiled each time by guards stationed in the lobby. She stamped her sharp heels and railed against being treated like a schoolgirl. Miss U.S.A. was actually Miss Runner-Up U.S.A., the real Miss U.S.A. being in another corner of the planet on business connected with a contest for Miss Universe of 1953. Miss Ceylon discomfited the contest director by proving, on arrival, to be Mrs. Ceylon. The director wouldn't even...
...trying too hard. "I didn't get my laugh," she would say in distress to a fellow actor. "What did I do wrong?" At the end of the first week, when her name went up in lights on the Fulton marquee, Audrey darted across the street like a schoolgirl to have a look. Then, in sudden solemnity, she sighed: "Oh dear, and I've still got to learn...