Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week, after a year of being hauled across the nation's front pages, as hero, starry-eyed lover, and writer of torrid prose, Lieut. Colonel Boyington was not so happy. In a San Diego court, seeking to recover $8,000 from an old flame, Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson (TIME, Jan. 21), Pappy drummed his stubby fingers, listened to his letters offered into evidence: "Dearest Cuddle Bum. . . . Baby, what a bundle of love is coming to you. . . . Honey, will you still love me if I never get to be America's leading...
From the outside, Schloss Rheydt is just another moated Rhineland castle. Within, it is an art lover's eyeful. There the British have collected German ecclesiastical art treasures, rescued by the Western Allies from their wartime hideouts...
...Elyot Chase, Amanda's former husband and current lover a composition more likely drawn from Coward's experience than imagination Donald Cook works with much vigor. His portrayal of the decadent, effeminate male is, however, slightly overdone, and occasionally approaches the prissiness of Edward Everett Horton. Mary Mason, his uncon-summate wife, has an annoyingly shrill voice which would convincingly irritate any husband, onstage or off. Alexander Clark, as Victor Prynne, is described by his wife as "a fat old gentleman in a club armchair," and is just that...
...demand a thunderstorm without clouds or rain as a Picasso without smudges or spots. The faithful raved over a pinheaded, plump-breasted, dirty-white thing astride a horned and half-destroyed reddish-brown thing. Entitled The Rape of Europa, it was dated June 5, 1946. Asked one impious art-lover: "Between what hours did he paint it?" It seemed to have something to do with the Greek myth in which Zeus turned himself into a bull to carry off a pretty girl named Europa on his back. Picasso's price...
Mary sent this clerkly lover packing, married Jesse Vineyard, also a lawyer, and bore five children. It was not until after Lincoln's death, in pungent letters to W. H. Herndon, an early Lincoln biographer, that she told why she had refused Lincoln. Excerpts: "Really you catechise me in true lawyer style. . . . From his own showing, you perceive that his heart and hand were at my disposal; and I suppose that my feelings were not sufficiently enlisted to have the matter consummated. . . . I thought Mr. Lincoln was deficient in those little links which make up the chain of woman...