Word: intervales
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Lunch lasted well into the afternoon, and was shortly followed by tea for "all those who didn't come to lunch." In the interval, Eleanor Roosevelt was discovered in a corner, teaching Bess Truman how to make entertaining less tiring by relaxing the knees. "I've learned from...
Make and Remake. After an interval in the U.S., and a promotion to first lieutenant, Krueger was back in the Philippines in 1908. The long-nosed, serious-faced young man with the dark hair parted dead center, brushed due east & west, was made a topographical inspector. As head of a...
Russian Interlude. The interval between Sonia's wild daydreaming and her actual departure for Boston is less Proustian than Russian. Her father, a frustrated, hard-drinking man, pulls out one night, never to be heard of again. (The family is sure he headed West, since he practically lived on...
In Paris, French Foreign Minister Georges Bidault was impatient. Said he: "It is generally agreed that national elections* cannot be held until the war prisoners and labor conscripts have returned. Since this is likely to be months hence, there will probably be a long interval before a freely elected government...
In this rattlebang old stage hit by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell (Little Accident, 1928) Mr. Cooper comes by his crushing responsibility somewhat unconventionally. For some time, in fact, as Cooper and his prospective second father-in-law Frank Morgan gamily swap innuendoes, the audience thrills to the possibility that...