Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beautiful, dynamic Mrs. Thomas, head of as many Quaker committees as her husband, was a sympathetic, adored but firm mother. "I love you, my children," she declared, "but I do not love your faults." Her children were passionate rivals for her affection and approval. Discouraging emotionalism, she told them she...
Of Mice and Men (United Artists). This first John Steinbeck picture is U. S. amusement seekers' third exposure to his bleak account of manly affection between two bin die stiffs (tramps who tote their own blankets) on a California grain ranch. It was first a novel, then a Broadway...
No Arms, No Armour has, for all that, the limited distinction of being the best novel about the British Army during the late peace (1928-30, precisely) that has yet appeared. Author Henriques, 34, is a major in the regular army. He writes with authority and irony of the military...
By the time Ogden wrung his way free of this world, he felt he owed no one either gratitude or affection. "I always had given far more than I had received; if there was any debt, it was due to me." The morning he left home, forever, nobody was awake...