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Word: vixenish (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie is confident he will come back. A year later he does return, with a Northern bride (Margaret Lindsay). With every vixenish wile she can think of, Julie tries to satisfy her longing and her hate. When a duel born of her scheming results in Buck Cantrell's death, even her motherly aunt (Fay Bainter) calls Julie a Jezebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Popeye the Magnificent | 3/28/1938 | See Source »

...sculpture, was better than that of the adults. Outstanding were a plaster head of a miner by 15-year-old Mike Mosco; a stone buffalo by 11-year-old Antony de Paolo, who was run over and killed by an automobile few weeks ago, and a watercolor of a vixenish young lady in a little veil, painted by 10-year-old Donald Liguore of the Boys' Welcome Home and entitled Going to Town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Relief Work | 9/21/1936 | See Source »

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