Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fluttering heart, Flush was almost a softy. He viewed Mr. Browning with alarm, did his best to break up the match. On two occasions Flush attacked him, bit his stalwart leg to no effect. A graceful realist, he saw the struggle was hopeless, admitted Mr. Browning to his friendship...
Third: Inter-House eating has been popular with undergraduates; it facilitates the continuance between men in different units of friendship formed in the Freshman year or before; it helps guard against whatever narrowness continued residence in one House might involve; and it enables the man of means and the man of small income to eat together in their respective Houses, each paying for his own meal, thus obviating the embarrassment which would otherwise arise from financial inability of the latter to act frequently as host...
...book, finds that they are his characters. He falls hopelessly in love with Sylvia, and she does him a favor, but she remains devoted to her surly absentee husband. Sinister Mrs. Forgate, who has a reputation as a husband-poisoner, watches with a cold eye the passionate friendship between her gigolo Antonio and the Keatsian poet Dacbe. Lad Greengable, godlike lifeguard with literary leanings, and Jacqueline, mannish musician, look longingly at Sylvia. Angela Flower (recognizable caricature of Aimee Semple McPherson) shouts hoarse evangelism through cocktail parties. Sol Mosier, neurotic antique dealer, pines for new sensations...
...World War, as long as possible delayed sending to Germany the ultimatum on Belgian neutrality which preceded England's declaration of war. For this he was blamed by Englishmen who felt that his hesitation encouraged Germany to strike first, by Germans who retorted that his policy of friendship emboldened France. Appointed temporary Ambassador to the U. S. in 1919. he spent four months in Washington without presenting his credentials to President Wilson, who was too ill to receive him. After England's general strike of 1926 Viscount Grey helped force the split which drove his onetime associate David...
...from intentional amnesia (see above). In Penthouse the New Yorkers are types with whom cinemaddicts should be more familiar-two important gangsters, a socialite lawyer and miscellaneous strumpets, all briskly engaged in alcoholism, murder and adultery. Lawyer Jackson Durant (Warner Baxter) loses his fiancee because she disapproves of his friendship with a jolly gangster named Tony Gazotti. Not especially disheartened, Lawyer Durant presently has a chance to laugh last. His fiancée's next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse party. The real murderer is another gangster, rival to Gazotti, named...