Word: tendernesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first-aid man gently scooped him up and deposited him in his butcher's wagon...
...Constant Nymph (Warner) is a little hoary at the temples. It was in vogue 19 years ago, has been twice filmed. But Margaret Kennedy's pathetic story about an adolescent girl's unrequited love for a middle-aging, married composer still exhales a tender, wistful charm...
Jekyll v. Hyde. Said one woman, listening unaware to her own voice (which other observers described as "tender, shy, lovely"): "A discouraged person, cowardly, and an unstable character." Said another woman, looking at her own hands: "Unintelligent . . . brutally sensual." Cried another, confronted by her handwriting: "The writing is so thin-dash it-that one cannot see it. It makes me quite dizzy. I cannot say anything about this handwriting. . . . No, leave me alone, please...
...thought I'd pass it on to you. . . JOHN McMANUS, a former yeoman, had been a Boston College Track Star and still makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey...
Hearts and Beasts. Cinema stars, in ratio to the tender age of their trade, took a less active part than they do today. Pin-up girls were as likely to come from the Police Gazette as from movie magazines. The bond-selling tours of such figures as Fairbanks. Pickford, Hart and Chaplin, though vociferous, were mild compared with the riotous junkets of World War II. Even the publicity stunts had a certain innocence. Sample: Mary Pickford's "adoption" of 600 men of the 2nd Battalion, ist California Field Artillery, each of whom wore her picture in a gold locket...