Word: schoolgirlisms
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...storm had begun by pounding over Watling Island in the Bahamas-probably the San Salvador which was Christopher Columbus' first landing place-silencing the Government wireless. At Panacea, Fla. five fishermen were drowned when the deep boiled like a pot. Near Moultrie, Ga. a schoolgirl was killed when she stepped on a storm-whipped live wire. At Dinner Key the wind blew 123 miles per hour at the Pan-American Airways base. Houses crumpled, boats swamped, streets flooded. Part of the metal dome of the State Capitol at Tallahassee was torn...
Nancy Merlci, perky 15-year-old Portland, Ore. schoolgirl, who took up swimming five years ago to help recovery from infantile paralysis, kept her 440-yd. freestyle title in the near-record-breaking time...
...close friends knew old Mr. Justice McReynolds as the gallant, trust-busting Kentuckian of another day, the bachelor legendarily faithful to the memory of his schoolgirl sweetheart (for years he reportedly made annual pilgrimages to Ella Pearson's grave in Louisiana, Mo.), the courtly wit of Washington society Sunday breakfasts, the man who wept at the graveside of Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes, and for whom Justice Holmes himself confessed a fondness...
...about her theatrical versatility. In Lady in the Dark she does virtually everything but play a trombone solo. She is on the stage almost all the time. Gertie (age 42), who offstage has never been in a psychoanalyst's office, runs an emotional gamut from the romanticism of a schoolgirl in her teens to the neurotic distress of a mature young woman. She sings sweetly, does high kicks and jazz steps (though with the years they seem somewhat angularly British). She models as few other women could an ar ray of costumes ? from a trig purple suit...
...play Jane Peyton, Director Lloyd chose Newcomer Martha Scott, whose only previous movie assignment was the naïve New England schoolgirl in Our Town. The daughter of a Gee's Creek. Mo. electrical engineer, Martha's brief movie record belies her acting experience, which began in Kansas City at the age of "about twelve or so" when she took up public speaking and dramatics to overcome an inferiority complex. She went to the University of Michigan to study teaching, received...