Word: kittenish
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When he covered the World War front before America's entrance and said "This is not our war!" was he the self-conscious heretic, the kittenish reformer, that many of his Harvard friends and journalistic associates had been? The point had better not be mulled over. Let Mr. Hicks fight it out with the American Legion, let Earl Browder cross swords with the defenders of the late Woodrow Wilson. So far as we know, a really great leader of the Proletariat has get to be a Proletarian, Communist Party or no Communist Party, but one's appetite for the adventurous...
...leads shift for themselves. Acting with considerable charm, and bursting frequently into song in the midst of Canadian wilds, Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy should provoke an even greater box-office triumph than by their first effort, Naughty Marietta. Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald) is a pettish, kittenish opera singer whose scapegrace brother (James Stewart, see p. 28) has escaped from jail, murdered a pursuing officer. To bring him financial assistance, she treks toward his cabin in the woods. Cheated on the way by an Indian guide, she meets Canadian Mounted Police Sergeant Bruce (Nelson Eddy), likewise on the trail...
Should Ladies Behave (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the fiancé (William Janney) of cunning little Leone Merrick (Mary Carlisle) tells her that she lacks sophistication, the consequences of his naïveté are fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her Aunt Winkie (Katharine Alexander). When Aunt Winkie, Leone, Geoffrey and Max arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom...
...Ella took her job very seriously, even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with her rival's baby. She called the baby Hope, brought her up as her niece...
...been married if I had choosen . . . I have never sworn eternal friendship to anyone, nor written poetry since I was eleven years old." On her 17th birthday (Dec. 28, 1870), Julia Newberry thus cast up her accounts. This two-year diary of a last-century Chicago socialite is less kittenish and platitudinous than most of its kind, may seem surprisingly lively to modern readers who put family albums on a level with comic strips. It will be of special interest to Chicagoans whose grandparents figure-not always to their advantage-in its sprightly pages...