Word: hating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twin brothers, sons of a fisherman on a little island off Scotland's coast, suddenly discover that they hate each other dearly. Gavan falls in love with pretty, nitwitted Lucy Morrisy, but it is Duncan who enjoys her, and wins her love. When she is caught, she tells her hard-bitten mother that Gavan was her seducer. Gavan gets a thoroughgoing thrashing but he marries Lucy, which is what he thinks he wants. Too late he discovers his affinity in a less twittery creature, the solid Sarah. But when Duncan continues to cuckold him and Lucy hangs herself...
...mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided: "I hate academic gowns." At 10 o'clock punctual officials glanced nervously at their watches, glanced again & again before Secretary Perkins, who had overslept at the President's House, hurried belatedly upon the scene...
...quite amazed that I can make a good living writing books my audiences hate, making talks my audiences resent. Of course it can't last. Some day somebody will read one of my books or understand what I am saying." So quipped radical Author Evelyn John St. Loe Strachey last month...
...next book (he has written between 80 and 100. confesses he has lost track of the total). His first visit to the U. S. was in 1896, when he married a California girl (Elodie Agnes Hogan; died 1914). Newshawks found Author Belloc tired and old. He grumbled: "I hate my trade. . . . Everybody hates his trade. I'd like to be a banker, without any work to do in the bank." Author Belloc's prolific output includes histories, essays, biographies, critical studies, children's books, travel books, political polemics, satires, sonnets, novels, light verse, defenses of the Catholic...
Author von Stroheim, onetime cinemactor ("The Man You Love To Hate") and Hollywood director (Foolish Wives, 1922; Greed, 1925; The Merry Widow, 1025), is described by his publisher as a "thickset, fanatical Prussian . . . possessed of a pair of spaniel brown eyes and a personality so winning that he seems able to move either mountains or human hearts with equal ease." He has again & again felt his passion for uncompromising cinema realism thwarted by cautious superiors. As a safety valve with which to blow off the pent-up, perilous stuff, he wrote Paprika. In it he "has given his passion...