1986 Aunt Polly knelt down and prayed for Tom so touchingly, so appealingly, and with such measureless love in her words and her old trembling voice, that he was weltering in tears again, long before she was through. Maureen Dowd, New York Times Magazine, 28 Sept. 1987 … Eddie sees Vince's pure love of pool, and after years of thinking of the game as merely a hustle, the older man suddenly falls back in love with the game himself. Ken Follett, New York Times Book Review, 27 Dec. Brown seems to imply that when he retired he relinquished her love as casually as he dispensed with her secretarial services.
