Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded. In the last 20 years only five men have been excepted from this rule: the Prince of Wales, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill and onetime Budget Director Lew Douglas, who were wined & dined in the club...
...than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole picture is a thoroughly delightful surprise...
...passion to herself. She had money, read romances ravenously, set desperate stock in a gypsy's prophecy of a house among trees in sunlight, a great love to come. In middle age she got the house, in the mountains of West Wales. Soon after came the great love, Lew Gower, too sea-bottom low a cad even to recognize his own evil. Lew flattered her and slept with her until he got all her money. But when his wife died he married not Esther, as he had promised, but Lettice, a kind and comely young woman. From then...
...Ballet Caravan ratted back into Manhattan and set up its tents at Broadway's dingy St. James Theatre for four nights. This time it showed Manhattan's dance fans two new U. S.-made ballets: 1) Charade, an intricate, tasty bit of choreographic icing by husky Dancer Lew Christensen; 2) City Portrait, a dour tenement-street pantomime choreographed by Dancer Eugene Loring. Dance critics liked Charade's tricky trip ping and whimsey, found City Portrait somewhat incoherent. But Kirstein 's home made ballet, like Finland's home-made army, appeared able to hold...