Word: tenderness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...White Plains, N. Y., deaf mute Joseph Donahue was miserable because his deafmute mate, Bertha, no longer loved him. When his affectionate fingers soothed, coaxed, enlaced in tender love words. Bertha's fingers only snapped, coiled, contorted scornfully. In time, Joseph became suspicious, enlisted deafmute friends to trail Bertha, sued for divorce. In court, after the fingers of his friends curled, twirled, twisted out their discovery of Bertha's adultery with an electrical engineer, she could only wring, writhe, entwine her own fluttering hands in full confession...
...past two seasons a U. S. Cavalcade has been agitated. Mr. Flournoy's drama may lack the bugle blast of Empire, but it is a tender record of an enduring, decent people...
Conard Nagel, one of the old faithful hams, completely outdoes himself in a very tender and emotionally sincere portrayal of the country squire, while Violet Heming, his leading lady, makes an effective if rather too studied fell for his own wistful flightiness. With the addition of some fine character acting by Kathryn Collier and John Halloran the piece becomes a finished job; one of the most sophisticated productions to reach the Hub city in this season...
Political hormones seem to be flowing freely this spring, and the results are almost as startling in the corpus politicus as in the corpus biologicus. One notes that Bulgaria is attempting the noble experiment of fascism. Under the tender ministrations of Tsankoff, whose government in 1923 executed Stambolisky, the Agrarian dictator, the king's conscience has been stirred. Abandoning the neutrality which he has maintained for many years, Boris has consented to dissolve parliament and replace the present cabinet with an "authoritarian" government. Successful declaration of martial law has been followed by the usual arrests of Socialist and Communist leaders...
Attempting a very difficult task, Fitzgerald has acquitted himself admirably. The contrast of the building up of Nicole after a bad start and the disintegration of Dick whose early start had been phenomenal is skillfully balanced and interestingly developed. "Tender is the Night" is well written, full of action, and true to life