Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Indian Heart. Her only rival as an imaginative creation is Dr. Aziz. With his emotionalism, his ready tears, his hunger for affection and his sudden patronizing of the people who respond to it, his humor and his brilliant discourses on the Mogul Emperors, his absentmindedness (after he had arranged...
The G.I.s were slow to reciprocate the Pyle devotion. In the field Ernie, ab normally sensitive to cold, wraps his skin ny frame in as many thicknesses of non descript clothes as he can lay hands on, makes himself look like a ready-made butt for jokes. At first the...
Against Oblivion is not exactly a fictionized biography, since letters and diaries carefully document it, but it includes a few invented scenes and speeches. The work of Sheila, Countess of Birkenhead (daughter-in-law of Severn's grandson) it is a labor of love in more senses than one...
Special police slowed down traffic. Streetcars crept at a snail's pace past the archiepiscopal residence. Inside, on his deathbed, lay an 84-year-old Prince of the Church. The fingers of one hand clutched a crucifix. Weakly the prelate raised the crucifix, gave his last blessing to those...
Speaking with an authority on marriage derived from 20 years as rector of Manhattan's famed Little Church Around the Corner, Dr. J. (for Jackson) H. (for Harvelle) Randolph Ray deplores hasty wartime weddings. He thinks they are usually the result of "glamor and excitement rather than genuine affection...