Word: fawning
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...just as fraudulent, in their own way, as the crooks. The culprits team up in Victorian London, where one is the perfect lady's maid (Greer Garson), the other a scampish, penniless aristocrat (Michael Wilding). Moving on to gullible San Francisco, where wealthy climbers are eager to fawn on English nobility, the maid passes for a marchioness and the blue blood for the perfect butler. Their plans go awry, and the comedy shifts from drawing room to bedroom, when Lady Greer arouses the ardor of a hot-blooded California aristocrat (Fernando Lamas) at a weekend party...
...bells of the Kremlin tolled the May Day hour (10 a.m.) as Joseph Stalin, in fawn uniform and chipper mood, stood on Lenin's marble tomb to take the adulation of a million marchers. His son, Lieut. General Vasily Stalin, flew above Red Square in the van of the mightiest Soviet air show; there were 64 four-engined bombers where last November there had been 22. "Comrades," orated Chief of Staff General S. M. Shtemenko, on the rostrum beside Stalin, "a crisis is approaching in capitalist countries...
...Vardis Fisher's Children of God (1939), a historical novel about Mormonism, and Fawn McKay Brodie's No Man Knows My History (1945), a biography of Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith. They attribute Prophet Smith's visions to his "imagination" instead of divine inspiration, and picture the early days of the church as filled with sexuality and violence...
...writers; they are learning to write. Some have learned much since their last published attempts; others, A. Stavrolakes and Naomi Raphaelson, have already produced more artfully than they do in the current issue. Therefore one cannot just take aim and fire. It would be too much like shooting a fawn...
...Mary) is a gentle, devout girl whose life has been spent in the peaceful town of Nazareth, feeding the animals, drawing the water for the family, tending the vegetable garden, pressing oil for the lamps, learning how to pound spices. Wild animals are tame in her presence; the fawn and the doe approach her fearlessly. And, like many a daughter in Israel, she dreams of one day bearing the child who will grow up to be the King-Messiah...