Word: tenderable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the results were incorporated in a graph showing the relation of spinster emotionality to age, the line rose from a low level at the tender age of 15 to a peak at 25. This was followed by a shallow dip at age 30 and another peak at 35. Then came a dip of placidity, with its lowest point at age 45, then a climb reaching the highest peak of all at 60. Author's explanation : "We may perhaps think of the two rises in the curve as associated respectively with increasing tension from the life-problems of sexual...
SUNS Go DOWN-Flannery Lewis- Macmillan ($2). Excellent characterization, recalling the tender humor of Glenway Wescott's The Grandmothers, of the author's doughty, imaginative, 90-year-old grandmother, "the first decent white woman in the Comstock District." A vivid piece of Americana covering the era of Virginia City, Nev., from its fabulous boom days of 40,000 families to its present ghostly desertion...
Names are funny, too. Juliet does some speculating about where-fore Romeo is Romeo and not Caspar Milquetoast or some other moniker that would rid the young pigeons of the family barriers between them. And the tone of her voice--that tender caress of a voice, instinct with primal passion and heart-throb and love--gives a musical quality and dramatic force that's been associated with it ever since. If you said to us "Romeo" and we replied "Romeyback" that would be that. But when Juliet, atop the rose-kirtled balcony, breathes out on the sweet smelling evening...
...recent pictures only "Camille" has a romance comparable to that in "Beloved Enemy." The actors convey an impression of intense love though outwardly they are restrained and indignified. To the mind of the reviewer the bicycle ride through the country is one of the finest and most tender love sequences of any movie. The highest praise is lavished upon the two charming and polished actors, upon the director, and upon the cameraman. They have made an unforgettable picture...
GREY OF FALLODON-George Macauley Trevelyan-Houghton Mifflin ($3.75). Tender biography of England's Liberal Foreign Minister (1905-1916) whose vocations were birds and fishing, his avocation, politics...