Word: cupidities
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...fortune; it had, the guests were told, been part of the jewelry pawned by Queen Isabella to finance Christopher Columbus. The air was loud with the popping of champagne corks, heavy with the scent of thousands of flowers-"a massive wedding bell of white roses, surmounted by a Cupid's bow, with arrow on the string, tipped with a heart of violets. ... At either end of the table ... a colossal four-leaf clover in red and white roses and carnations...
...delicate sense of pity, which the Playgoer possesses despite all evidence to the contrary, influences him to pass over the other picture "Lady by Choice," with but a cursory comment. May Robson, as Paisy Patterson, a been sodden derelict who plays the role of cupid to a bewildered couple, confirms a suspicion that she missed her calling when she tried the movies...
...shipping magnate has fallen quite in love with his secretary Diane Lovering (Joan Crawford) but being a wise gentleman he decides to test her affection for him by sending her away for a while. Cruising to Buenos Aires the attractive Diane meets Michael Brady (Clark Gable) and this time Cupid's aim is sure. However Diane realizes Field's dependence upon her and returns to marry him. Her life with Field only serves to sharpen her realization of her love for Brady and after a tremendous struggle within herself she is finally saved by the generous defection of Field from...
Determined to go down in history as the Cupid of the Age, Benito Mussolini last week started firing wifeless mayors. Beginning alphabetically with Alessandria Province he appointed married men to replace the bachelor mayors of several towns ending in "o." Next day the last bachelor in Il Duce's Cabinet, elegant Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Fulvio Suvich, hastily married at Trieste a widow with two children...
Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...