Word: affectionateness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The three sons and one of their criminal pals they bring home are some of the most loathesome characters I've encountered in a comedy. Their one redeeming feature is that they do seem to have affection for their mother. This hardly outweighs the rudeness with which they treat her...
When his niece Ann, a painfully plain woman doctor, bundled him off to the family's abandoned country house, old Tom feared that it was not so much out of affection for him as out of an interest in how he'd leave his money. But he settled...
Tom let his mind spin back to livelier days. He remembered his devilish sister Lucy, who willfully eloped with Puggy Brown, the butcher; Lucy had scrubbed floors, suffered humiliation and yet found happiness in Puggy's gypsy crusade as leader of a revivalist sect. He remembered his own brilliant...
Lloyd was really Ma Barker's only failure. She could barely read or write, but she taught all her boys to rob and kill and keep their mouths shut. She loved them all with a twisted, violent affection, but she was quite capable of coldly permitting a crooked, drunken...
Her friends, who range from Joe Martin, the Robert Tafts, and the Fred Vinsons to Omar Bradley and Louis Bromfield, find her a likable, kindly woman. Bromfield pronounces her "one of the gayest people I know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent...