Word: rueful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aged playboy enters the scene. The proceedings are, however, scrupulously moral. The girl is a charmingly outspoken young creature who is adequately armed with her own innocence. The architect is an honorable fellow (he gets the girl to the altar in the end). Even the roue becomes talkative and rueful when it comes right down...
...Deadly Parallel. So a start has been made toward cutting the McCarthy myth down to size. Before that job is finished, it will need more than rueful second-thoughts of liberals. President Eisenhower will have to deal again and again with McCarthyism, which is a major liability to Eisenhower's foreign policy, his domestic policy and his party. Only an exaggerated fear of McCarthy's power could account for such disgraceful episodes as the delay in the appointments of Mildred McAfee Horton and David Shillinglaw on the ground that they had belonged to organizations that McCarthy may consider...
...etchings of early aircraft, the framed photographs of Sam Rayburn and Alben Barkley. Gone from the presidential desk were the familiar knickknacks-a piece of rock from the highest mountain in North America (Mt. McKinley: 20,270 ft.), the donkeys, and the desk photos. Said Harry Truman with rueful jocularity: "If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again...
...Adlai* Ewing Stevenson stands 5 ft. 9 in., weighs 180 Ibs.. slightly inclined to spread at the waist. Dark hair receding to the middle of his skull; a quick smile, a rueful laugh, eyes that are inclined to bulge. Is a serious, thinking, worrying, hard-working,, self-criticizing introvert. A frugal man, he has an income of about $50,000 a year (mostly from his one-fourth interest in the Bloomington, Ill. Daily Pantagraph...
After being so determinedly wry, the picture suddenly turns rueful when the Keefers' six-year-old son drowns at a picnic. From then on the movie never quite makes up its mind whether to be comedy or tragedy, and it never makes anything much of its two central characters. As they shape up on the screen, they seem not so much average as sub-average...