Word: digressional
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"Not by One lota." Within 24 hours, the sensational news had swept across Germany. The old Chancellor, before boarding a special railway car for Italy, recorded a bitter little speech to his countrymen. It contained an odd digression. Lashing out at British "wire-pullers" almost as if the British forced...
Of all plays, modern or ancient. The Marriage-Go-Round may well be the least given to digression. Here are sex and marriage, marriage and sex, with never a servant to interrupt, or a caller to intrude, or a child to compete; with not a moment's domestic small...
("Vengeance is mine . . . saith the Lord") is almost cruelly pressed home. But most of what leads up to the point seems tedious digression, and Cowboy Peck gives the impression that he felt more comfortable in that grey flannel suit (TIME, April 23, 1956) than in ranch pants.
Director and Co-Writer Leo McCarey told this tremulous tale once before in 1939 (Charles Boyer v. Irene Dunne). On this familiar old heart-wrenching ground, Cinemanipulator McCarey, whose heart is as big as a whale's, carefully swings the plot pendulum-like between gladness and sadness. Cary and...
Smith's Mary Ellen Chase, 68, silver-thatched, silver-tongued bestselling author (Silas Crockett, Mary Peters}, whose courses in English literature have long borne, by Smith custom, the proud and simple label, "Chase," and whose domestically detailed quizzes have been immortalized by a bit of campus doggerel: "What...