Word: wistfullness
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Again Mr. Abramson is notably good as the beggar in "Hunger", and the performance as a whole is smooth and even Mr. Huberman as the poet looks his part, and makes it sufficiently wistful, and Miss Fay Goeil plays the Girl with taste and conviction. The play, written some years...
STORE OF LADIES-Louis Golding -Knopf ($2.50). Bulls, despite the talk, do not frequent china shops. But boxers do, sometimes, invade polite society. Wordy but facile Author Golding is here engaged, and most engaging, with Jimmy Burton, Burmondsey bruiser, on Mediterranean shores. The warm widow whose puny son he is...
That desirable thing, a monopoly, last week fell into the lap of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. The small but amiable Cleveland Times, its only competitor in the morning field of a city with a million citizens, died, as a local colyumist said, "after a long sickness." The Plain Dealer took...
December, January, February, March. A thousand golf courses lie in expensive desuetude. Eighteen thousand fairways, as many close-clipped greens, countless traps and bunkers are sheathed with ice and snow. Investments totaling $180,000,000 (interest at 6%, 120 days, $3,600,000) yield no return save wistful hopes for...
French critics have been exclaiming and declaiming about Author La Mazière. His hero, the Parisian equivalent of a Wall Street protozoan, is made to seem more wistful than the meanest Americano would likely be. An orphan, he suffers an ugly seduction in his youth. His one love affair...