calf love

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is calf love with the pair of them, and they will grow out of it.”

From Martin Eden by London, Jack

But I shall pass the child loves by, and instance first my calf love.

From The Kempton-Wace Letters by London, Jack

“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)