Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next morning stagehand Frank Maurrant leaves for Stamford, a show is trying out there. Mrs. Maurrant tells Sankey, her lover. He goes upstairs. The curtains are drawn. Sammy Kaplan sees Sankey go upstairs, sees the shade lowered...
...fetching wriggles. When she fell in love, she urged her inamorato to "Take good care of yourself, you belong to me," beating him gently on the chest. So did the audience belong to her, though she abused her property by making such cynical comments as this, to a recalcitrant lover: "You can't have children by telephone...
...recalcitrant lover, a timidly lecherous golfer whose eyebrows kept going back on him whenever he saw a pretty girl, was Jack Haley, an infallible absurdity. When he broached the matter of his grandmother's bed, someone suggested that it was probably one of those beds George Washington had slept in. "We could never get Grandma to admit it." said the unilateral Haley. More samples of locker room esprit were forthcoming; John Sheehun, a sturdier comedian, described taking a bath as "dunking the body...
When Lawyer Tulkinghorn, starting to make good his threats, does not pay for her spying, Hortense shoots him. Lady Dedlock is suspected and dies on her lover's grave; the marriage bells ring in the last...
...even age cannot undo with argument Yeats' fantastic imagination: Valley, river, and elms, under the light of a moon That seems unlike itself, that seems unchangeable, A glittering sword out of the east. A puff of wind And those white glimmering fragments of the mist sweep by. A lover of fine typography, Yeats himself prints books. His press is part of the Cuala Industries run by the Yeats family -one sister manages the embroidery department, another the hand-press, and a brother designs hand-blocked prints. Versatile, Yeats does sketches for Punch (pseudonym, W. Bird) ; served in the Free...