Word: wistfullness
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Dr. Clinchy, opening his Bible, stood with his back to the marble fireplace, surrounded by the little semicircle of 44 guests. Close by stood Hopkins' ten-year-old daughter, Diana, wistful and pretty in a cocoa-colored crepe dress and a brown straw hat. While Harry Hopkins put a...
With a touch of wistful melancholy the Scuttlebutt, paper of the Naval Training School, noted today that this was the last week that "the lovely ladies of the Summer Session" would be around.
Completely uninfluenced by highbrow, esthetic theories and by the splashy Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles that then dominated French art, Painter Rousseau painted things he enjoyed: exotic, tropical jungles full of childishly round-eyed animals, portraits of his friends, wistful nudes reclining in imaginary, saladlike forest scenes.
Manhattan had seen him first (TIME, Oct. 27). One look at his pincushion shape, outsize ears, spriggy elephant trunk, wistful bemused expression, and 350,000 New Yorkers (to date) took him to their cosmopolitan bosoms.
They Died With Their Boots On (Warner) is two hours and 17 minutes of wistful, little-eyed Errol Flynn as General George Armstrong Custer. That is a lot of Errol Flynn. With the Civil War and another Last Stand as backdrops for his heroics, the swashbuckler manages to be enormously...