Word: sighing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish, divorced the husband of her heart (A. E. Matthews) and who, after seven years, skillfully regains him while his young, obnoxious second wife conceives a passion for a ballroom dancer. In her intrigues Miss George seems wise, affectionate and lovely. Mr. Matthews, pointing his speech with subtle sigh, grunt and grumble, gives a human, extremely funny portrait of a boyish sort of man whose most serious follies must inevitably be ingenuous and disarming. The dialog is sedately witty rather than wisecracking - remarking how, on the basis of deportment, it is difficult nowadays to tell the sexes apart, Miss George...
...left behind in the apartment by mistake. As Ann slowly recovers, Toby gets to work in earnest, sells some stories, writes a novel. The outcome, in suspense up to the last page, few will be so cynical as to disallow. It is a book calculated to make old men sigh, young men dreamy, newspaperwomen reminiscent...