Word: waif
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...flowerlike, Actress Rainer proved appealing enough at moments, but she was one step ahead of Barrie all the way. She was not just Cinderella, but one of the babes in the wood and one of the orphans of the storm: in Critic John Anderson's phrase, "a career waif...
...sensitive student at a middle class girls' school in Burgundy. Too much of an individualist to be popular with her classmates, she is ignored by her father, who lives in his chateau with no other purpose than the breeding of snails. Her only friend is a charming Parisian waif, Mouloud, whom her father picked up in the city one day and brought back with...
...newsmen and movie magazine interviewers in England and France, pretty, pout-mouthed Starlet Corinne Luchaire had one sure-fire line. When the inevitable question about her love life came, 20-year-old Corinne (whose greatest role was that of a reformatory waif in Prison Without Bars) inevitably sighed prettily: "I'm much too young for romance...
...Shirley Temple's 22nd feature-length film and final picture for Fox, where she was the nation's No. 1 box-office attraction for four years, an Oscar winner, the corporation's biggest single asset. The opening scenes of Young People, covering her progress from waif to world wonder, permit two shots from her earlier films when her wobbly dancing warmed the hearts of millions. Now & then she rasps out such reminiscent ditties as Young People...
...tales have flowered in fiction from Kipling's Mowgli to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan. Very few, nevertheless, are the cases, authenticated to the satisfaction of science, of moppets growing up in forest or jungle without human contacts, whether with or without animal foster parents. One authentic woodland waif was the "Wild Boy of Aveyron," found in a French forest in 1799. Others were Amala and Kamala, two children discovered, in 1921, living in a cave in India with wolves...