Word: make
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...practiced the auctioneer's spiel as he did his farm chores, at 19 apprenticed himself to an auctioneer for three years, at nothing a year, and became an expert judge of fine cattle. "Doctors may make mistakes, patients die, and laymen don't know why," explains the colonel. "But on the auction stand you're talking to men who know as much...
...wife, and it is played with a passion that U.S. movies never seem to find in married couples who have school-age children. In the other woman (Patricia Neal), who gets nowhere with Morgan, the script fashions an acid, quip-studded portrait of a smart tart on the make...
...Ford after World War I), as well as a grandson of Victorian Painter Ford Madox Brown and a cousin of the Rossetti family. A precocious schoolboy, he began writing while still in his teens, but almost from the beginning he showed that the only noise he was likely to make would be in praise of others...
...Sylvia? The downfall of this demigod is the inexorable theme of Parade's End. Christopher, despite his incomparable powers (or perhaps because of them), is a man saturated with humility, pity and chivalrous principles. With a world that is half gone to the dogs he will make not the smallest compromise; so the furious world sets out to hunt him down...
...first & foremost an artist's dream, always larger than life, more drenched with passion and drama. Often tortuously long, always intensely complicated by the mingling of thought and action, it is likely to be too much of a Kanchenjunga for most readers to struggle up. But those who make the grade will find-after a respite in which to get their breath back-that Uncle Toby Ford has laid out a remarkable view from the summit...