Word: wistfullness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Featherlight, the tale gets going when Jupiter's bang-crash arrival on earth- he forgot the law of gravitation-brings it home to him that assuming human simplicity is going to be a very complicated process. To gain Alcmena he has to sacrifice his wistful whim to be loved...
Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its...
In 1935 he got a few weeks' work (at $100 a week) as "special representative" of the Federal Housing Administration. After that he became just a figure to be pointed out as a privileged visitor to the Senate floor, where he spent wistful hours in the background. Men shook...
One day in 1888, a wistful little cur with a happy wag to his tail wandered into the Albany, N. Y. post office and made himself at home. Amused clerks promptly adopted him, named him Owney, fed him from their own lunches, let him sleep on mail sacks. Feeling safe...
When Warwick Deeping is writing in his own person, he likes to use much stiff-legged literarities as "flavicomous, ecology, otiose," speaks of people "occluding" the doorway. But his wistful better nature comes to the fore in his characters' speeches, which are always from the heart. Says Rosamund: "One...