Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Bombay the young sailor met a mysterious American named De Ruyter, one of several men for whom he was to develop romantic attachments. He shipped with him in a privateer. Armed with six 9-pounders, manned by a miscellaneous crew of Arab, Dutch, English, American adventurers, the "lovely little...
Instead of casting a familiar Hollywood face in the role of Young (Spencer Tracy was considered, then rejected because of his frequent appearances as a Catholic priest), Zanuck "discovered" Dean Jagger, an able veteran of the Broadway stage, whose cinema appearances have been sporadic and inconspicuous. Jagger brings to his...
His revue is a burlesque show of the very best sort, with the same sort of humor--reasonably clean, of course--and the same sort of vaudeville. Unlike the Old Howard, it also displays some beautiful and seductive women. For the rest, however, it consists of the usual acrobats, guitar...
This summer Dr. Zinsser published a transparently disguised autobiography called As I Remember Him-The Biography of R. S. (TIME, July 1). The initials R. S. stood for "Romantic Self." In that book Zinsser revealed that he was an agnostic, that he did not know what lay beyond the last...
Her early books, scorned by U. S. critics, were warmly received, like their author, in England, where she fascinated Thomas Hardy with descriptions of San Francisco's cable cars, described George Moore as "a codfish crossed by a satyr." The Conqueror (1902), a life of Alexander Hamilton, generated a...