Word: lumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Church clergymen, farmers, shopkeepers, each with his wife and family, all passionately involved in the everyday affairs and intrigues of an English cathedral town. It is, said Nathaniel Hawthorne, who was a great admirer of Trollope, "just as real as if some giant had hewn a great lump out of the earth and put it under a glass case, with all its in habitants going about their daily business, and not suspecting that they were being made a show of." But readers who do not buy Doubleday's expensive edition of this famed novel will find equal satisfaction...
...doomed to die from one of those mysteriously incurable diseases which in filmdom carry off their perfectly healthy victims with stopwatch accuracy at curtain time. Ivy's inevitable wedding steeps all four principals in a maudlin effusion of unspoken nobility aimed at sending the audience out with a lump instead of a laugh in its throat...
...Laraine Day, an impressionable girl. She lives with a mother (Ann Harding) whose memories of her own blighted romance make her at first fear for her daughter, then urge her to go ahead and take her chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends to be torn away by sudden orders, purely for the purpose of setting a fire under the balky heroine...
Johnny swallowed a lump of sugar after every fourth mile. He nursed his 37-year-old legs up & down hill for 26 miles and 385 yards, turned into Exeter Street to see a pretty sight-no one in front of him. He had won the run ten years ago, finished second six times since. Asked why he kept at his punishing pastime, Kelley replied: "Some people play golf in the rain, some stay up all night. Running is my hobby...
This being a dinner for "company," my friends went at it with relish, despite rattling dishes and window panes, constantly shivered by V-2 and buzz-bomb blasts all around. Their eagerness to share their little with me did more to create the lump in my throat than did the thought of their plight...