Word: affectionately
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sometimes Frankie's girl friend Molly could make things bearable for him. She was a hustler who lived in the same cheap rabbit warren of a rooming house, earned her living in saloons where she got a percentage on the drinks her customers bought. But there were times when...
In its hilarity, and in the monumentality of the American type that it creates and satirizes, A Sea Change is something like Sinclair Lewis' Babbitt, and like that book it is written with affection for the subject. But it has an art of its own that makes it rich...
Afterwards, Winner Sabath and Loser Cox grinned happily for the photographers. "I have a genuine affection for Adolph," beamed Cox. "I really love him." "I'm sorry too," said Sabath. "Gene is really a capable gentleman."
The plot is really a clash of the Silas Marner theme. Hope, as the doleful bookie, is a miser. Mary Jane, dubbed "Shorts," lands on Jones' doorstep when her father is killed for accidentally discovering a big race fix. Jones is callous towards his new room mate at first, but...
Between Hate & Love. Between wars, too, Jack McCloy learned something of the Germans at their best. On an eastbound train in 1929 he ran into his Amherst classmate, Lew Douglas (now Ambassador to Great Britain), and Mrs. Douglas. Arriving in New York, they introduced McCloy to Mrs. Douglas' sister...