Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Erskine Kennedy is not only a poet; he is also a music-lover. More specifically, he likes to sing, and whenever the Glee Club rehearses, he joins forces with the second basses. Although he does not read music--"I shouldn't be put down as a noted musician, I shouldn't think"--he can blend accurately with surrounding voices. Neither Mr. Kennedy nor Professor Woodworth recall the exact year in which he first appeared in Sever 13, but it was in the neighborhood of 1935. Since then he has missed few rehearsals, attended most of the Club's concerts...
...Song, Show Boat, New Moon, Carmen Jones, Oklahoma!, Carousel. He has written the lyrics for nearly 1,000 songs (which has earned him a coveted AA rating by ASCAP), including such imperishables as Indian Love Call, Who, Ol' Man River, Only Make Believe, Why Do I Love You, Lover Come Back to Me, The Last Time I Saw Paris, Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin', The Surrey with the Fringe on the Top, People Will Say We're in Love, June Is Bustin' Out All Over, It Might As Well Be Spring...
Small World. In Milan, Italy, Pickpocket Paulo Gaudenzi got off a streetcar after stealing a wallet, took one quick look at his loot, chased the car, jumped on, thrashed his victim. In the wallet : a photo of Paulo's wife, inscribed: "To the world's most thrilling lover...
...admitted his marriage only because he intended to divorce his wife and marry his leading lady, Beverly Bayne (seven years later they were divorced). When they learned that he was a husband and father, fifty million disillusioned lady moviegoers promptly threw him over. The screen's Great Lover was soon a has-been...
...atmosphere of high spirits, alternate between chasing pretty girls and discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...