Word: schoolgirlisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...main street of the Ruhr Valley city of Gelsenkirchen one morning last week, a schoolgirl marched up to a young man and popped an odd sort of question. "Herr Huett," said she, "what about Goethe's Prometheus?" Without a moment's hesitation, the young man threw back his head and began to recite...
When the young man with the excellent memory had finished, the schoolgirl slipped him two pfennigs, and with her morning's lesson safely in mind, skipped happily off to school. Thereupon, Horst Eberhard Huett, 22, continued on his way in search of another customer, another question-and more pfennigs...
...session. A solemn-eyed child of 14, she sat beside her father in the turbulent House of Representatives, picked up the nuances of politics and law like a prairie hen picking up seeds. Ike vacated his seat in 1921 and Oveta returned to the life of a schoolgirl, but after Austin, school was a big bore. She frequently skipped classes at Temple High School, though she managed, nevertheless, to lead her class. One year at Mary Hardin-Baylor College was enough for Oveta, and in 1923, when her father was returned to the legislature, she began to spend nearly...
...drawings represented 20 years of creative effort and most of them were of Frida Kahlo herself, painted with tiny, meticulous brush strokes and clear, strong colors. There was a moody Frida with an opening in her finely shaped head exposing a childlike skull & crossbones, a gay Frida in schoolgirl dress, Frida as a wounded deer, as an agonized figure writhing on a hospital bed. The overall impression was of a painful autobiography set down with brush & paint...
Most of the darts were aimed at the prizewinning coin design by 71-year-old Sculptress Mary Gillick. "Absurd to do that with the poor girl," sniffed one Londoner of Mrs. Gillick's work. "Made her look like a schoolgirl and she's really quite regal." Others objected to the sculptured royal nose and the laurel-wreathed, bun-backed hairdo. "Not a good likeness, as far as I can judge," humphed famed non-likeness-making Sculptor Epstein. "Look what they've done to our Queen," piped one shrill critic. "Made her neck too long." "I should...