Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for his morning walks, Harry Truman is no exercise-lover. The White House horseshoe court has had so little use that grass now grows around the stakes. But, under orders from Graham, the President swims in the White House pool, has an occasional bout with the exercise board -a slanted contraption into which the President obediently straps his feet for toe-touching exercise...
Most of Conrad Richter's story might have been written by Booth Tarkington. In a transparent and innocent style he tells of Lucy Markle, a beautiful smalltown girl at the turn of the century remembered "in an old yellow snapshot." Because she had remained faithful to her dead lover, people admired her, for death and dignity were taken seriously then...
...Bout coupla monts ago business started gettin' stinkin'. We was losin' money, but fast. I gotta do somethin' to goose da place up. Now I'm a sport lover, see. So I figure maybe dese guys is goin' to hockey games or fights, an' I say, why not bring hockey or fights here, so guys can see sports and drink atta same time. So I buy dese gadgets. Slump in business stopped...
...naughty story for the family trade. Because adultery is taboo to Hollywood's censors, Angela Lansbury is represented as a widow and Mr. Sanders does not take up with Miss Dvorak until she is a widow too. An old gentleman who was unmistakably Miss Dvorak's lover in the book is presented in film as a dear old friend of the family. A part which Maupassant thought of as a very shady lady (prostitute, except in Hollywood), is played by Marie Wilson, who is identified as "a dancer...
...also disliked his fellow dramatist William Shakespeare, whose writing he considered "obscure." "What do you think of this passage?" he scornfully asked a Shakespearean enthusiast: " 'I would as lief be thrust through a quicket hedge as cry Pooh to a callow throstle.'" The enthusiast explained: "A great lover of feathered songsters, rather than disturb the little warbler, would prefer to go through a thorny hedge. But I can't for the moment recall the passage." Said Gilbert: "I have just invented it, and jolly good Shakespeare...