Word: lusband
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telling is pat and unconvincing. Author Weston has strong and respectful feelings for the abandoned soldier and the miserable widow-but her slick answer to their despair is to have them meet accidentally and fall in love, because the lonely soldier reminds the lonely widow of her dead lusband. Though The Dark Wood has its cold-blooded villain and villainess, most of the characters are treated as normal, unheroic people of the 20th Century -with the difference that their faces seem always to turn, like flowers to the sun, toward the klieg lights of Hollywood...
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