Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just the right age, 23 and a sophomore at small Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio, when he wrote Darling Nelly Gray, in 1856. What caused it was a boyhood memory: when he was a child, a fugitive slave stopping at his father's house had told how his sweetheart, Nelly Gray, had been sold into slavery. Hanby mailed the manuscript to a Boston publisher. The song swept the nation, sold more copies than any previous song except Foster's Old Folks at Home...
...General's views echoed those of the Most Rev. John Francis O'Hara, Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop of the Army & Navy Diocese. Said he: "One sacrifice that many a woman is making today is the postponement of marriage, when she sends her soldier sweetheart away with a smile and a promise to wait, in the thought that she will not add to his burdens the worry of a wife back home...
...Hawaiian royalty, offered her sprawling villa near Honolulu to the U.S.O. as a rest home and recreation center. Hawaii's Republican National Committeewoman for 12 years, she is the mother of ex-playboy Prince David, given a ten-year manslaughter sentence in 1937 for cutting his half-caste sweetheart to death...
...Coburn), surgeon and sadistic moralist, unnecessarily amputates both legs of a likable good-time-Charlie (Ronald Reagan). Denounced by his distraught daughter (Nancy Coleman), he offers her a choice of silence or confinement in the insane asylum. Brave Randy Monaghan (Ann Sheridan), shanty Irish and desirable, marries her legless sweetheart and cables Parris to come home. The young medico returns, full of his new knowledge, to find that the ills of Kings Row are still beyond his scope...
This apparent attempt to build Miss Temple into another "America's Sweetheart" looks like waste of a tidy talent for emotional acting. Shirley Temple is by no means awkward, as her age implies. She now has a pleasing voice and smile, nicely self-contained manner, and a better acting technique than many of her adult Hollywood confreres. In Kathleen she seems obviously embarrassed at the inanities she is asked to perform...