Word: sweete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once again, immeasurably greater will be the audience appreciation if the play is seen with the knowledge that it is much less a profound portrait of "The Magnificent Yankee" than, as one elderly lady was heard to exclaim ecstatically, of "Holmes, Sweet Holmes...
...sweet old etcetera...
...nervous drawers which succumb to the excitement at least three throughout the film and slump ignominiously to the ground, thereby embarrassing Miss McDuff only one quarter as much as all unsuspecting males in the audience. Miss McDuff's drawers become so excruciatingly annoying that at last debacle, when the sweet young thing is dancing in the arms of the handsome teacher at the Senior Ball, and the blasted things come loose for the last time, several unhappy swains in the audience were seen to blush crimson, cry out and run from the theatre...
...some months now, Indio has had a new, a dream girl. In her honor, he even had the name of the street he has built on changed to "La Calzada de la Duke Olivia" (The Street of the Sweet Olivia). That he had never seen Olivia only heightened the poignancy of the romantic situation. But in August his old U.S. script-writing buddy, Marcus Goodrich, married Emilio's dream girl, whose name is Olivia de Havilland...
...sometimes Grandmama came to visit. She was regal and beautiful. She told little Beatrix wonderful stories of her youth-about the adorer who had first written her a beautiful poem, beginning "Sweet harp of Lune Villa!" and then drowned himself in the lily-pond (some said he only tripped and fell in), and about another adorer who was unfortunately "quite a common man. My mother directed the footman to put him under the pump." Grandmama never knew that the little girl, under cover of drawing butterflies, was recording every word in self-made shorthand, written in a script so tiny...