Word: schoolgirlisms
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...little red skirt when I was a schoolgirl...
...display looked like a schoolgirl's botany project. The little green leaves and wispy roots, neatly mounted on 14 neat white sheets, had pretty names-O Cheng Cho"v, Ti Chai Tzi, Sweet Chrysanthemum. But the exhibits of grass and herbs, no trophy of a schoolgirl's outing in the country, were part of an official report from the China office of UNRRA. The pretty names stood for wild leaves and stems and roots that the peasants of Hunan province (where 5,000,000 face death) have lived on for 40 days...
...Raphaelite show ever seen in the U.S. A chalky procession of anemic heroes with torches, washed-out heroines with doves, empty-eyed angels with bubbles, and chubby babies with bouquets, the show seemed to modern eyes like the interminable (though carefully censored) maunderings of a none-too-bright schoolgirl. Harvard students found it dull as dishwater. The Handwriting on the Frame...
Blonde, petite, crinkly-eyed June Allyson, 22, has come up fast since she first arrived in Hollywood in September 1942. Probably Metro's most promising ingenue, she is the opposite of the typical young screen sparkler, looks and acts more like a well-adjusted schoolgirl from Pelham, N.Y.-which she is. Retiring, unflighty, even ungregarious, she lives quietly with her husband, reformed Crooner Dick Powell, 41, in a two-bedroom country house in the Los Angeles suburb of Brentwood. She cooks, takes art lessons, likes to read mystery stories, rarely makes the Hollywood nightclubs...
Married. Hamilton Fish Armstrong, 52, learned, clear-thinking Foreign Affairs editor, behind-the-scenes adviser on U.S. foreign policy; and Carman Barnes, 32, author, whose sexy, best-selling first novel (Schoolgirl) at 16 brought her fame, fortune and raised a good many eyebrows; she for the first time, he for the second; in Manhattan...