Word: shepherdess
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...Brave Margot, he told of a simple shepherdess who breast-feeds a motherless kitten, a spectacle that attracts all the menfolk in the village. His signature song is The Bad Reputation, which he cites as his personal credo...
...then, Hélène Lazareff is likely to have demonstrated some new enthusiasm. France's host of other fashion magazines, some 50 in all, can only emulate. They can scarcely compete with an influence so pervasive it can turn a shepherdess into a mannequin...
Alice was a pretty thing, with blond hair verging on copper tones. There was a sort of fairylike fragility about her arching, slender neck and delicately cut profile, and though she was not really small she seemed so, for she was slender and small-boned, not like a Watteau shepherdess, but like a little girl, and every move she made was graceful and unhurried as grain bending in the wind. Eric was not really handsome, but he had a clean-cut youthfulness, sleek hair, clear eyes and skin, and a certain litheness in his movements that bespoke the practiced athlete...
...Brattle Street. (A fire on Dec. 31st destroyed everything, so she has begun again from scratch.) Kitty prides herself on her fabrics, imported from the oddest countries. What she calls her "new, darling designs" turn out to be merely a modified and more sophisticated A-line. She has a shepherdess's dress complete with plunge which should be interesting. Kitty and her "fantastic seamstress" will make you a cotton dress ($25) in ten days...
...loves mankind but hates human beings," as a critic who can really accept nothing. But we soon find that the couple are in reality only players who are ordered by their director to vacate the stage for another couple who must rehearse their roles of the shepard and shepherdess, Corydon and Thyrsus...