Word: affectionate
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"Whereas," he cried, "it hath pleased Almighty God to call to His Mercy our late sovereign lord, King George VI, of blessed and glorious memory, by whose decease the Crown is solely and rightfully come to the high and mighty Princess, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, we therefore Lords Spiritual and Temporal...
Boots Malone (Columbia) is a horse-racing movie, sired by any of a dozen others and damned by the resemblance. It tells of a jockey agent (William Holden), tarnished and down on his luck, and a runaway rich boy (Johnny Stewart) who wants desperately to be a winning jockey; of...
Still, The Best of the Best is a rich hoard of U.S. writing. Perhaps the one great story is Ring Lardner's Haircut, a caustic glimpse of small-town brutality; it gets better with each rereading. Close runners-up are Ernest Hemingway's My Old Man, a poignant...
"The noise of a late-lingering flock of wild geese going out to its day's feeding in the wheat fields woke me the next morning," Davis may write, with a mildness that is really intensely restrained affection. "The sky was already beginning to fill with light, and there...
What was good about The Lady on the Rock was Author Arnold Schulman's vivid re-creation of an off-Broadway gin mill, a place alive with the yelps of syncopation, and feverish with the cynical wisecracks of men afraid they may have missed the last boat to Success...