Word: boye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When his mother died in 1910, his strongest tie to the old country was cut. His father wanted him to go to Zurich to study industrial chemistry, but the boy had grown up in a fertile country and was fascinated each spring by the return of the generative cycle. Frequently he asked himself: What is life? How does it begin? How does it function...
Knowing the dual nature of the college, Princeton's admissions office tries to get dual-nature students. Nassau Hall wants "the all-around boy who possesses a sound mind, a healthy diversity of interests, and those qualities of leadership and citizenship which will make him a fine citizen on the campus and in later life...
...little boy and a little girl are at play in a Paris suburb. The little boy's mother is very sick, and dies. The little boy's cruel uncle comes and takes him away to England. The little boy and the little girl are unhappy...
...little boy has grown into Gary Cooper with a mustache. He is a rising architect with the scars of an old would on his heart. He goes to Paris, where he sees his old house. He returns to England and goes to Yorkshire to rebuild some stables for the Duke of Tower. The Duke's wife--guess who she turns out to be--falls in love with him, and vice-versa. The duke walks in on them in her bedroom, pulls a gun, and gets killed as Cooper brains him with a chair, Cooper gets life in a prison...
...story takes us back to the any-man's-land of Australia at the turn of the last century. In the course of eloping with the stable boy (Joseph Cotten) at her English home, Ingrid Bergman had shot one of her brothers who objected to her marrying beneath herself. Cotten took the blame and was promptly shipped off to Australia as a galley slave. Ingrid went there and, working in a pursuit which she did not care to elaborate upon, finally earned enough to buy his freedom...