Word: enjoyments
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have to be carried away himself. Toughest problem of the picture: which is the more pathetic, Henry Tudor or Charles Laughton trying to be Henry Tudor? There are a couple of obstacles to be overcome. 1) Watching Laughton laugh, and 2) watching Laughton eat. However, some people may even enjoy the latter; at least some did when the picture first appeared in the Thirties. In the seenes that do not show 1) and 2), there's a fairly steady tailwind to keep you going
...average citizen could only hang on to the balloon as hard as he was able, try to enjoy the ride, and hope fervently for the best. But he was beginning to feel more & more like poor Mr. Thurston...
Planes swooped and circled outside Southampton as the huge Queen Elizabeth saluted her older sister with deep-throated blasts. Some 700 Cunard White Star guests, including a covey of admirals and a duke, were aboard to enjoy the ocean breezes in new super-deckchairs and gaze greedily at the shop windows in the promenade. The rich goods on display were held under customs seal until the Mary's first overseas passage this week, but there were free champagne, cocktails, candy and cigarets for everybody and a larder full of food, the like of which Britons had not seen...
Hinkley Manor, which "had never been restored or preserved or quainted up with spinning-wheels and wrought-iron lanterns," is a world of feminine ideals in which many readers will discover a Victorian heritage. Readers may have the feeling that they have read it all before, but they will enjoy the quiet patrimony of English charm which the author settles on her people. The Happy Prisoner often trembles on the verge of sentimentality; what saves it from toppling over is Miss Dickens' ability to create characters who are intimately, almost tediously, convincing...
...Treaty, the iniquitous French, and the inexorable movement of economic forces which forced Germany to accept Hitler. And the moral to the tale is that we must "permit a free and democratic Germany to emerge from the present chaos, in which this industrious and talented people may work and enjoy the fruits of their labors on an equal basis with other nations...