Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With Ralph Richardson brilliant as Peer and Dame Sybil Thorndike a tender, humorous Aase, the play swept on to a 20-minute ovation...
Apart from the fact that Kelly looks like he's dying to break into some of his very excellent dancing, and Deanna into a tender encore of the very hummable "Always," "Christmas Holiday" has its tense and effective moments. Gale Sondergaard delivers a spine-tingling performance as the aristocratic matriarch of an old New Orleans family, trying to keep her bad little boy from going around murdering people and otherwise disturbing the Creole peace. Richard Whorf portrays the liquor-loving newspaperman in just the right tones of big-time tenderness...
...reconversion," he wrote. "These statements . . . were, in my opinion, inspired by subordinate officials [on] the personal staff of Mr. Nelson. . . I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts. I am unwilling to do that. The dissension within the organization does harm to the war production effort. Therefore, I tender herewith my resignation...
...Niland, a stout, calm woman who is "Stumpy" to her four boys, signed the messenger's pad, opened the telegram. It was from Adjutant General Ulio, and it read: "The Secretary of War desires that I tender his deep sympathy to you on the loss of your son Preston...
...grandson) it is a labor of love in more senses than one. The affection for Keats with which it is suffused, its portrait of the gentle, sturdy, unworldly, innocent and perceptive Severn, its wonderful picture of Severn's happy family life make it a biography as tender and moving as any in recent literature...