Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company was blessed with luck. It had arrived in Manhattan at a time when the theater was at its lowest ebb since the war. The hits of last fortnight, Maxwell Anderson's and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, and the Lunts in I Know My Love (see THEATER) had not yet opened. Sadler's Wells was the first smash of the 1949-50 entertainment season...
...Noisy Fountain. Three months later, Margot came back from Paris with a new warmth. There were rumors that the girl who had been too busy for marriage had at last found time to fall in love. At any rate, she had had a chance to reflect and to mature...
Actually Erskine's Venus had a rather exalted idea of love. She wanted it to be "creative" and became quite embarrassed when her sexy brother-in-law Mars talked about its "animal implications." At the same time, she got a great kick out of spying on Achilles and Polyxena as they made love in a grove outside the walls of Troy. It was also true that looking at her musclebound Vulcan after he bathed made her forget supper and the problems of the world...
Bartender Red O'Shea's vision comes after Gangster Scar shoots a dreamy rival for the love of a moll named Lu. As Lu holds the dying rival in her arms, Red sees
...Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic love affair (at 38 Semmelweis married a girl of 18) is anchored firmly in fact. "An editor suggested that I have him fall in love sooner," reports Author Thompson. "I said, 'What do you want me to do-make him fall in love with an eleven-year-old girl...