Word: cherished
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...husband (Frank Morgan) determines to purge his home of a golf champion who has been paying unwelcome attentions to his wife (Katherine Wilson). She conceals herself behind the parlor drapes to overhear his stern dismissal. All goes very well until the golfer pointedly reminds the husband that those who cherish their wives do not consort with Spanish dancers on the side. When he has gone, the curtains enfolding the wife never tremble. Their motionlessness is the essence of drama, and though a domestic tragedy has been laid bare, it is stated in such detached and plastic terms that the audience...
Those who never knew him will find his writings a small but particularly illuminating glimpse of the man and of the subjects to which he gave his life. Those who had the good fortune to be his intimates will cherish a host of memories of expansive evenings when his singular mind, Greek in its scope and freedom from bias, illuminated and gave new value to a world of ideas...
...seek isolation for its own sake . . . but we cherish our position of unprejudiced detachment because through that means we can best meet our world obligations...
...similar fate pursues Ingunn and her master. In righteous wrath Olav had secretly killed Ingunn's lover, but nevertheless married Ingunn to love and cherish her. "Now at last they were safely together. He passed his hand over her shoulder and arm?it was cool and soft as silk; the coverlet had slipped down. He drew it up, bending over her with caresses, and she replied from her drowsiness with little sleepy words of endearment, like a bird twittering on its nightly perch. But his heart was wakeful and easily scared? it started like a bird that flies...
...favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish it for occasions when the ointment of glorification is spread a bit too thick...