Word: schoolgirlisms
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...martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks fervently of a plan to meet the threatened invasion-to surrender parts of Ireland without resistance, in exchange for parts to remain unmolested, where Irish culture, Irish religion can be preserved. To matter-of-fact Brigid this is nothing but schoolgirl's talk; but Catherine, with her saint's face, wakens a kind of fanaticism in Allen-her fervor makes her ideas seem feasible and right...
While he did so, Miss Ghose and Miss Chowdhuri drew automatic pistols from their schoolgirl saris (shawls) and foully murdered Magistrate Stevens by pumping his chest full of lead at point blank range. A British orderly who dashed in was wounded in the hand by one of the schoolgirls last shots. Perfectly composed, they were locked up in the local British jail...
...time does the farce get any closer to sanity than those late famed collegiate musicomedies, Good News and You Said It. But Cloudy With Showers has a certain breathlessness about it which may amuse before it tires you. In the cast are Rachel Hartzell, the emancipated schoolgirl, and Co-author Thomas Mitchell. Each is ingratiating and charming, helps make Cloudy With Showers affable but strictly early season entertainment...
...schoolgirl in Catford, England, who, when imormed that she had won $50,000, said: "I shall buy myself a pretty...
...teeth on her husband's thin-lipped parochial ambition. The Indian, being noble, shot himself next day. Nasa was born and grew up thinking little about her parentage, feeling much about herself. Her legal father prospered in railroads, enjoyed giving her every advantage. But even as a schoolgirl Nasa had a tendency to scratch and bite, see red instead of rosy. When she married, too young, it was the wrong man: a gambler, a roué, diseased. To her family Nasa put up a falsetto front, but when her husband divorced her about the time the U. S. declared...