Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than life itself. You are the sweetest wife in the world. Goodbye, Honey and Dickey." Another note was addressed to two boys: "Be good boys. Please your father. O Lord help me." Some had been jotted down at intervals: "I am fine at 5:30-is in bad shape, going on and moaning. Tell- I forgive her. Everyone going." Another read: "My dear wife: Goodbye. Name the baby Joe so you will have a Joe. Love...
...tired after his recent illness, nevertheless made plain that he is not ready to be counted out of politics. "A real change," he said, "will get me in shape for some little time to come-I hope...
Linda Darnell celebrated quitting time on Forever Amber by handing goodies around to her fellow workers-a diamond-&-sapphire ring to Director Otto Preminger, a gold wristwatch (with diamonds) to her wardrobe girl, a gold money clip (in the shape of a folding chair, with his name on it in diamonds) to her cameraman, and a round-trip ticket to Honolulu to her hairdresser. Now, said Miss Darnell, she had had enough work. In four years, she explained, she and her busy cameraman-husband, Peverell Marley, had spent only three days together, and it had nearly broken up their marriage...
...goggling egos in It May Never Happen are mostly those of ordinary Britons: clerks, housewives, tradesmen, or casuals who drift around the periphery of fixed society. Pritchett furnishes the wastelands of their minds with the unspoken impulses, the suppressed, half-formed resentments, suspicions and despairs that shape their personalities and behavior. Outwardly nothing much happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows...
...Lion. This biography by Syracuse University Professor Terhune is the best documented life to date of Victorian England's least-documented poet. "Fitz," a lifelong friend of Carlyle, Thackeray and Tennyson, came of a rich and ancient family, was able to shape his life about as he wished it. He did not wish to become a literary lion. "Tell Thackeray," he wrote firmly to a friend at the age of 21, "that he is never to invite me to his house, as I never intend to go. ... I am going to become a great bear; and have...