Word: doves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice the referees moved and Princeton was moved away from a touchdown and then Guy Marden dove over the Crimson wall at 1:12. The Referees decided that the Princeton kick wasn't any good...
Edha Best and Brain Aherne play the sinned against and sinning mates of the Lunts. Both are agreeable, thereby undermining the Coward intent at every turn. Aherne displays more character and less foppish romanticism that the author seemed to have in mind. Miss Best, looking winning and dove-like, is asked only to coo and weep. Cecil Beaton's sets are tastefully appropriate; his idea of Serena's sitting room seems about what the Marchioness herself would choose...
...consoling to those who wanted to go to Paris this summer and couldn't; it might also be seized upon with vindictive satisfaction by those who went and got rained upon . . . But to an old parigot, that beautiful photograph brings waves of tender nostalgia . . . Thanks to the habitual dove-grey Paris sky, I first learned to see color in the wet stones of the misty buildings ... in the black trunks of the chestnut trees and in their rich green leaves shining from the rain's varnish . . . What man who has not felt the wet seeping into his shoes...
Porter has got by with such rhymes plenty of times: even his wizardry is hard put to improve on four basic rhymes with "love" in the English language (above, dove, glove, shove). But while he can be shamelessly obvious, more often Porter is so dazzlingly dexterous that all the Tin Pan Alleycats bristle with awe. Nobody is cozier with words: for him, Winchell rhymes with provincial, suburban with Deanna Durbin, Nina with schizophrenia. Jehovah with Casanova, Lassie with democrassy, to the bottom I with hippopotami, a fine finnan haddie with my heart belongs to daddy, and Venetia who loved...
...With her red carnations.' said [a wedding guest], 'she looks most of all like a dove with a dagger in its breast...