Word: wistfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One of the unbarbed items in Pins & Needles, the revue produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, is a wistful number called Sunday in the Park, depicting the tribulations of the proletariat when it deserts New York's teeming streets for its teeming parks. A man...
Hawaii Calls (RKO Radio) is a vain effort to make 10-year-old Bobby Breen swap his mammy-singing mannerisms for the more suitable antics of a lifelike small boy. Its story outfits him with rags & tatters, a shoeshine box and a stowaway's berth to Honolulu. But whether...
That so constrains us, making you wistful, holding me morose?
"The American Woodsman." Certain wistful biographers have hoped that John James Audubon was really the lost Dauphin, sneaked from Paris during the French Revolution. Audubon himself may have thought he was. A vain man, he affected popinjay dress against the dun background of Pennsylvania Quakers, crow's raiment in...
THE MERRY, MERRY MAIDENS-Helen Grace Carlisle-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). An ordinary novel about six ordinary maidens, taking them unmerrily from innocent girls-club days through to wistful disillusionment.