Word: schoolgirlisms
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...Like Maria, few Sicilians could believe at first that Salvatore Giuliano was really dead. He had been as handsome as a schoolgirl's dream, as vain and indestructible as a god on Olympus. For seven years in the mountain fastnesses of Sicily, he had been the king of bandits in a land where every bandit is looked upon as a king. Giuliano had gathered about him an army of 600 or more followers...
Plain Yorkshiremen found it pretty hard to digest, but few gallerygoers found the show impossible. A bespectacled schoolgirl named Moreen Beedle was one of the few. "My dad said I should come along and look at it," she explained, "because he was at school with Henry Moore. But I don't know, looks a proper mess to me." Ronald Skipsey, a tweedy old insurance man, stayed on the fence: "They say genius is akin to madness, don't they?" But it was a redfaced Wakefield cab driver, Tom Pickering, who came closest to the Yorkshire concensus...
Frances ("Peaches") Browning, who bloomed in the 1926 tabloids when, as a 15-year-old schoolgirl, she married 51-year-old Edward ("Daddy") Browning, decided to swear off. In California, she got her divorce from husband No. 4, had a ready answer for reporters who asked about a future marriage: "No-never, never again...
Like Jane Austen, one of her models in the art of fiction, Elizabeth Taylor has lived a quiet life in provincial England. As a schoolgirl in Reading, she wrote surreptitious romances when she was supposed to be studying; she worked as a governess, later as a librarian, then she married and had two children. She is now a fair, grey-eyed young woman (36) who lives with her family in Buckinghamshire and, thinking that to be adventure enough, hopes never to have any others. She is a born writer and a good...
...Century-Fox) is a featherbrained variation on one of Hollywood's most cherished myths: that U.S. Moms up to the age of 40 should be able, at the drop of a mink stole, to look and act like their teen-age daughters. The plot, as silly as a schoolgirl's endorsement of a beauty soap, is just about as inventive...