Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...agreed that there is a great failure to celebrate ... I believe the truth is that they have detected in him something they find quite unforgivable-Decent Feeling. Behind all the bluster and cursing and fisticuffs he has an elementary sense of chivalry-respect for women, pity for the weak, love of honor-which keeps breaking in. There is a form of high supercilious caddishness which is all the rage nowadays in literary circles. That is what the critics seek in vain in this book, and that is why their complaints are so loud and confident...
...Steinbeck; produced by Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein 2nd) suggests that misused talent can be more distressing than none at all. In this reversible raincoat of a "play-novelette,"* Steinbeck tells of a sterile husband (Kent Smith) with a fierce yearning for parenthood. His wife (Barbara Bel Geddes), out of love for him, conspires to have a child by another man. At first crushed and incensed when he learns the truth, he is at length comforted with a transcendental sense of being the father not of one child but of all children...
...Alderman Halsey," introduced the State Department's protocol expert as "chief of portico," lauded Scott Lucas (in a speech nominating him for Vice President of the U.S.) for being "a member of no thinking group." But he had the instincts of a born politician and a hearty love of power. Working his way up in Chicago's Sanitary District from tree-chopper to chief engineer, he struck up a firm alliance with well-heeled Sewer Contractor Patrick Nash, the other half of the famed Kelly-Nash machine. Chosen mayor by the city council in 1933 to fill...
About 2 B.C., Roman Poet Ovid, the Oscar Wilde of his day, told in his Art of Love how to woo a lady...
Gable shows more emotion in taking a racing motor apart than in his wooden-faced love scenes (sample dialogue-She: "You're quite a guy." He: "You're quite a dame...