Word: cupidities
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Experts creamily agreed last week that the sale was going quite well. Purchases after two days totted up to $242,000. Jacques Seligmann of Paris & Manhattan paid $19,000 for Bouchardon's slim, adolescent statue of Cupid, which the elder Schiff acquired...
...remained away for some 30 years. On his return, by which time she had been a widow and a wife again, he had told her his real name, revealed that while she had been contracting two marriages he had contracted 19, mostly to correspondents of a matrimonial publication called Cupid's Messenger. The two joined forces and Cupid's Messenger, thereafter, became the Hebner handbook. Mrs. Hebner advertised herself in it, left home temporarily to marry a Montana rancher whom she subsequently deserted as "too cranky." Mrs. Hebner advertised herself again, this time got herself a Putnam, Okla...
...Awful Truth" depicts Irene Dunne's futile attempt to divorce Cary Grant and win the custody of "Mr. Smith," a canine known as "Skippy" in private life. The interlocutory decree is granted, and "Mr. Smith" is treated with all the consideration recently shown Miss Gloria Vanderbilt, but Cupid has ninety days to make a comeback. These are packed into sixty minutes of hilarious entertainment, thanks chiefly to the dialogue and the capable acting of Miss Dunne and her four-legged friend. "Skippy," who appears more at home before the camera than when he played in "The Thin...
...English sportsman who fills the king's shoes during the coronation period. Ruler for a day, he has the misfortune to fall in love with the king's betrothed, lovely Madeleine Carroll. That in the end they have to part does something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Colman has might and right on his side, he looks a little wan when he has to share a scene with...
...English sportsman who fills the king's shoes during the coronation period. Ruler for a day, he has the misfortune to fall in love with the king's betrothed, lovely Madeliene Carroll. That in the end they have to part does something to one's faith in Cupid or David O. Selznick, Jr. Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., following in the footsteps of his illustrious father, turns in a superb performance as the delightfully unscrupulous Rupert of Hentzau. Though Mr. Coleman has might and right on his side, he looks a little wan when he has to share a scene with...