Word: wistfullness
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On the basis of skill and facility alone, I can also praise John Crockett's "1929--There Is a Clock That Always Strikes." This, however, is a cloyingly wistful memory of an age that has passed, an album of Daguerreotypes of "orange blossoms" and "milkweed gloves," that reaches its supreme...
"G." Gertrude Lawrence, known to her intimates as "Gertie" or "G," has long had this sort of effect on the most bilious critics. After her Broadway debut in 1924, one of the most acid reviewers, the late Percy Hammond, said that "Every man in town is, or will be, in...
But tell us, you men in tweeds, can free speech mean much to the millions of Americans who only look in at the windows of Thanksgiving dinners and hear with wistful ears the solid sound of think leather sole on the cold pavement. Nine million farmers can assemble all right...
In the past two years G-Men have often rolled a wistful eye at the sensational headlines of the Dies Committee, which had invaded an ancient but lately unpublicized province of FBI-sabotage, propaganda, espionage. G-Men took cover in the excuse that such doings should be kept under cover...
The basement was done over into a game room and a rathskeller. On the walls a wistful, cherubic Conant portrays "the forgotten man" and a puckish Conant on skis streams behind him a "California here I come" banner; also, the original James Montgomery Flagg poster welcomes alumni to the World...