Word: wistfullness
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Two Freshmen wandered into Widener Reading Room the other day with that wistful, fervent look about them. They looked properly impressed as they surveyed a roomful of early birds grinding away on their first-week assignments, with nothing but the sweep of fountain pens, and the whispered requests at the...
Fibber McGee & Molly (Tues. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Last year's rating champs return to 79 Wistful Vista.
Jimmy Savo, past master of comic pantomime, was busy figuring out new comedy routines. Place: a Manhattan hospital. Occasion: convalescence from the amputation of his tumorous right leg. Fey-and-wistful Savo, now 54, was keeping his chin up. "I've always kept it up," said he, "ever since...
They bought from fisherwomen in Bedouin-like headdresses the Portuguese equivalent of hot dogs - grilled sardines. But the biggest crowds milled, with wistful eyes, around the U.S. pavilion, where wooden doll exhibits depicted typical scenes of life in the fabled, incredibly distant land of freedom.
If Portuguese had felt boastful instead of wistful, there was material for self-congratulation about their Government and their way of life. Britain, their old ally, banker and protector, now owed them ?80,000.000. Spain, their old rival, was in the United Nations' doghouse, while Salazar, in spite of...