Word: naturedness
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The cruise, scheduled to last three hours, was over in 40 minutes. Last week the Americans gasped out the reason, in reports whose most sensational sins were those of omission. Impressed, apparently, by the fact that the SPARS were in show business, the Canadian crew had readied themselves for a...
That tore it. A News Chronicle columnist said that the Economist "accurately expresses the thoughts of millions of ordinary Britons." Two weighty sobersides, the Yorkshire Post (owned by relatives of Anthony Eden's wife) and the London Times turned their thunders on hitherto sacrosanct Franklin Roosevelt, roared that it...
Gettysburg to Appomattox, by Douglas Southall Freeman, is the third & final volume of Lee's Lieutenants. Its portraits of the able, good-natured men who contributed to Lee's greatness are masterly. Its clear, detailed battle accounts read like chapters of good novels.
The Love of Life that flows through the books Brooks has written since his recovery is a quality that had been missing from American literature since its greatest days. Brooks once wrote of Llewelyn Powys, who recovered from tuberculosis, that he was like a hare that had escaped the hunter...
In Brooklyn, Abby and Martha Brewster (played with twinkling good humor by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, creators of the stage roles) are looked upon as just two fluttery old maids lovingly taking care of a crack-brained nephew (John Alexander) who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Little do the...