Word: worldliest
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...drawing-room comedy, The Day After Tomorrow is anemic but agreeable. In its British way it manages to seem rather distinguished even when it is out at elbows. It has a nice languid urbanity, a pleasant suggestion of wit; and Melville Cooper is the suavest of performers playing the worldliest of peers. What does serious harm to the play is not its tenuous gaiety but its interminable romance. This not only makes for labored playwriting, but is never really in the true Lonsdale manner. Never was such real insouciance elbowed by such phony scruples; and never, for that matter...
...John, Richard's successor,* whom she had secretly called to her aid. Two years later, as John let her continental lands slip through his fingers, Eleanor quietly died. She lies at Fontevrault, between Henry and Richard. The effigy on the tomb of the greatest and worldliest woman of her time shows a figure peacefully perusing a book-which, as one of her apologists said, need not be regarded as a missal...