calf love
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In the 24 years since young Jack Pickford played Willie Baxter in the silent screen version of Seventeen, cinemaddicts forgot how much charm there is in that classic of calf love on Main Street.
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But Edward Ellis, who helped make memorable the cheaply made quickie, A Man To Remember, does not turn the trick with this thin-spun tale of village politics, catty gossip, calf love.
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Most of the town young fellows of his age he found had a "girl" and almost every girl had a "fellow"; there was calf love in abundance, but he was a different brand of veal.
From The Portygee by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
“I beg,” Jacob said with dignity, “that you will not compare your calf love for a picture-postcard young lady with what might easily have been a great passion.”
From Jacob's Ladder by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)
People laugh at "calf love," but one might as well laugh at the wonder of dawn or the coming of spring.
From Pebbles on the shore [by] Alpha of the plough by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)