Word: schoolgirlisms
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...into the No. 1 female exhibition bowler. There was robust Marie Warmbier who, with an average of nearly 200 in three years of exhibition bowling, did poorly by sacrificing accuracy for speed in the Omaha tournament. There was freckled Mary Jane ("Little Marie") Huber, 15-year-old schoolgirl, a hopeless cripple until she was 10, who handled the ball like a grape fruit, outscored her coach, Marie Warmbier. Pretty, buxom Ella Burmeister, a grocery clerk, so excited one male spectator with her nine-game total of 1,683 that he fell off his high perch, broke his ankle. Marge Slogar...
...TIME as I they would know that to enjoy a crack at Big Hearted (with other people's money) Harry Hopkins and Honest Harold Ickes we must learn to take one ourselves occasionally. Mr. Bath is as weak on hitching his quotation to the right person as the schoolgirl who thought that Laurel was the man who said, "Kiss me, Hardy...
...name of Bertrand Russell would ever have become a household word in English-speaking lands had not the blue-blooded Earl and his free-thinking second wife set out some years ago to educate the world in what they considered the ways of sexual happiness. Now familiar to every schoolgirl, their views once more made news last week when Bertrand and Dora Russell turned up in a London divorce court...
...been known vaguely in Manhattan theatrical circles as "the highest paid woman lawyer in the world." Since most women attorneys receive trifling fees, this distinction was negligible, although Lawyer Holtzmann's clients included Noel Coward, Gertrude Lawrence and Leslie Howard. She began her legal career as a schoolgirl, doing chores about the office of her older brother, Lawyer Jacob L. Holtzmann, studied law at Fordham, opened an office of her own half an hour after being admitted to the bar in 1922. She has been ready for the plaintiff ever since. She has additional offices in Hollywood and London...
Girl V: She's always getting worked up about schoolgirl crushes. Every time she sees two girls walking down the hall with their arms around each other she calls them into her office and gives them a lecture on the dangers of perversion...