Word: schoolgirlisms
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...killed Mrs. Parker with the brick-filled stocking. Their principal evidence: confessions from both girls, and excerpts from Pauline's own diary, in which Mrs. Parker's death was listed as the "Day of the Happy Event." Dozens of people die every day, sometimes thousands, said the schoolgirl's diary: so why not Mother...
Most eloquent of them is Psychiatrist Henri Flournoy, who cites a typical case history: Mile. X was a schoolgirl, not yet 16, the daughter of a farmer. She had been seduced at a fair in a neighboring village, did not even know the man's name. Her parents wanted a legal abortion. "This young girl, physically healthy, ran no danger either from the bodily point of view or from the mental," says Dr. Flournoy. "But if I had refused authorization, I would have inflicted incalculable damage on her from a psychological point of view...
...Colorado Springs schoolgirl who wanted to date the most popular man in Denver went to dinner and danced with Denver's Mayor James Quigg Newton...
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...