Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vacation from Marriage (MGM) is a warm, gentle, wise little Britain-in-wartime comedy, excellently acted by a British cast, excellently directed by Sir Alexander Korda...
Young Donald ran home for a toboggan. Mother & son strained and tugged to pull Hutt up the icy hill, gave up, exhausted. They carted down blankets, built a fire, heated rocks to keep the wounded man warm. Then, as the boy kept solitary watch, Mrs. Hutt stumbled back to the lighthouse, desperately signaled to the mainland by blacking out the light with a curtain. She sounded the fog alarm, built seven brush fires on the hill. No help came. At 10 o'clock next morning Hutt died...
...clans squabble over everything from politics to plumbing, from who-owns-what to who-sleeps-where. The city slickers always get the worst of it: their living room is commandeered for funerals and littered with pigs; they freeze and starve while the country folks go warm and well-fed; they imagine that the yokels' attractive son has eloped with their daughter. Eventually, of course, peace is established, and one family moves into the barn...
...trees, as it was originally intended to do, and still serves as a dwelling house. The beauty of this old house and the sense of openness which its grounds give to its corner of the Yard not only constitute an invaluable link with Harvard's past but lend a warm homely quality to an otherwise coldly institutional group of buildings...
Lady Astor finally got back home to Old Virginia, and from there was heading for Florida (not to see Winston Churchill-"That would be a busman's holiday"*). She was taking Lord Astor to a warm climate "to restore him." Explained the 66-year-old Viscountess: "Everybody wants to be a young widow-they go like hot cakes, but nobody wants to be an old widow...