Word: luff
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Scherchen has strong views about U.S. orchestras: they have become so technically perfect that "they no longer risk" experiments in contemporary idioms such as jazz ("I luff der jass"). He has been invited to the U.S. many times, has refused because he was expected to do a whole series of conventional programs ("the Tchaikovsky Pathétique on one concert and Beethoven's Fifth on the next"). Says he: "I do not have to conduct works I don't like. I will not conduct to order...
...Married luff never lasts," mourned Britain's new Princess of Wales, in her thick German accent, to a lady in waiting. "Dot is not in de nature." But, alas for poor, playful Amelia Elizabeth Caroline, Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, married love not only failed to last, it never even began. The Prince of Wales, later (1820) to become King George IV, was already secretly married to one woman and deep in the toils of another, his mistress, Lady Jersey, when he sent his emissary to ask Caroline's hand in marriage...
High-strung Cinemactress Judy (A Star Is Born) Garland, two days after suing Movie Producer Sid (A Star Is Born) Luff for divorce (TIME, Feb. 13), cooled off, called the calling-off off. Breaking the news to the world in time-honored Hollywood fashion, Judy rang up Veteran Gossipist Louella O. Parsons, confided that Luft was not guilty of "extreme mental cruelty" as charged, added: "I thought something that wasn't true...
Walbrook's acting is suitably romantic, complete with palsied gestures and tremblings of the nether lip. However, he is addicted to the phrase, "I luff you," which sounds ludicrous in spite of the fact that Pushkin may have written it. Dame Edith Evans plays the elderly countess with great attention to realistic detail, and Yvonne Mitchell is highly attractive as Walbrook's inamorata...
Crepe for Color. The Germans did not encourage art at Stalag Luff I. Greening had to be resourceful. "We used our own hair for paintbrushes," he recalls. "We baked twigs to make drawing charcoal. Coffee made dye. We boiled crepe paper and can labels to get color for paints...