Deplorable Word word itself, and had vowed that none of them, nor their descendants, would seek to discover it. Jadis said she had "learned it in a secret place and paid a terrible price to learn it". The book does not say what that price was, or give further details on the Deplorable Word. Lewis does not explicitly link the Deplorable Word to any specific weapon of mass destruction, but he alludes to the power of humanity to destroy life. Writing in 1955 in the midst of the Cold War, Lewis has the lion Aslan say to the central characters from the
Valiant Is the Word for Carrie managed to pull her laundry business through the slump of 1929, is prepared to play loving foster grandmother to their first child. However, the germ of the film's ending - with the jail break going wrong and Carrie being arrested and facing trial - is present in the novel as a conversation about "what might have been" and "how things might have gone wrong". Frank S. Nugent of "The New York Times" called it "more moral and uplifting than "Pollyanna"" and "irresistibly attractive". He criticized the running time for being almost two hours long. He concluded that "The misfortune is