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They saw a pretty, pug-nosed little woman articulate, with something of the luminous otherworldliness of Maude Adams and with some resourceful, intelligent acting�a Golden Treasury of U.S. schoolgirlishness.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was in the sheen on Minna's hair, in Emma's long-plaited schoolgirlishness, somehow in Clara's anger.

From Pointed Roofs Pilgrimage, Volume 1 by Richardson, Dorothy Miller