Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...caring for the old lady (Agnes Moorehead), has compensated by poring over the poet's letters, has conceived a coy necrophilia for him. By day she is the cold spinster, by night ah! with her kitten and her finch and that sill ver oubliette which holds the letters (sweet counterfeits of passion!), she is indeed a very Mab of love. The publishing fellow (Robert Cummings), sniffing out the letters, blunders into her dream, effects a gentle transfer of her affects to his own living person and, though lose he must the literary remains, yet wins himself the woman...
Society Iss Nix. At first, Waugh found, the comics were steeped in an atmosphere of "toughness, of the harsh life of bums and thugs." Once publishers got the idea that comics might attract millions of child readers, the strips were scrubbed up. Replacing the often cruel Yellow Kid were sweet Buster Brown, dreamy Little Nemo, merry Little Jimmy. The Katzenjammer Kids were mean moppets, but in their rebellion against grown-up conventions they were on the children's side. As the long-suffering Inspector said: "Mit dose kids, society...
Next, the two Yale researchers tried bees, which have much more complex reactions. The bees acted like the cockroaches, crawling frustrated outside a heat-transparent window with sweet-smelling honey vapor behind it. Apparently both cockroaches and bees could smell vapors at a distance from their antennae. This may explain how certain creatures, such as male moths seeking their females, seem able to detect odors far downwind...
...first reels describe the sweet upland bedlam of hens and houseflies, pigs and children in which Uncle Tigna (superbly acted by Aldo Fabrizi, the priest in Open City) lives. He indulges his nagging wife as if she were a pet horsefly, sneaks supper to the children when they are being punished, stains his legs up to the knee treading his grapes, fusses more than the cow over a new calf...
...Tawny Pipit. A sweet-tempered pastoral comedy about English bird-lovers who practically forget the war in watching a pair of rare birds (TIME...