Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Harry Davenport, 83, silver-haired grand old man of the stage (he took his first bow at five; had his diamond jubilee as an actor in 1946); in Los Angeles. He had played everything from the Second Gravedigger in Hamlet to Broadway runs opposite Jane Cowl, before switching to Hollywood, where he acted character roles in 113 films (Gone With the Wind, Wells Fargo...
...ideas of the National Association of Manufacturers. For the record - I am not loyal to many of their ideas. And I never will be." The council of Sweets's union, the Radio & Television Directors' Guild, unanimously passed a resolution condemning his "forced" resignation, because "a man's talent and ability should be the sole cri teria by which he is judged for employment." At the same time two other Guild members, Marx Loeb and George Zachary, were named as the new directors of Gangbusters and Counter...
...fine, large-featured, dim-eyed, bronze-coloured, shaggy-headed man is Alfred," wrote Carlyle in 1840, "dusty, smoky, free and easy; who swims outwardly and inwardly, with great composure, in an articulate element as of tranquil chaos and tobacco smoke." Seasoned in the fumes of his own shag, he was also, before he was 35, the veteran of a personal hell from which almost nothing was lacking: a torn and distressful home; the shock and grief of losing his best friend, Arthur Hallam; the cruelty of a sneering review in the Quarterly Review that drove him into nine years...
From the garden of his London house, Henry Bishop peered at the red-faced stranger in the yard next door. The man was staring straight up at the bathroom where Bishop's wife was making splashing sounds in the wash basin; suddenly he burst into a clumsy dance of delight and blew a kiss to the window...
Henry Bishop, a middle-aged shopkeeper, trembled with shock. Was that kiss the first? Had Madge encouraged it, had she smiled back at the man? A muddled rush of feeling seized him: pity for himself as a rejected husband, envy of the stranger's virile appearance, guilt that he had failed to step up and challenge the fellow. Bishop felt even more confused when the stranger bounced over to introduce himself as the new neighbor, Charles Diver. The man invited them to dinner, and Madge, who had come downstairs, cheerfully said...