Word: hating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Acclaimed as the last and greatest production of the master showman, Florenz Ziegfield, "Show Boat," which moved in at the Shubert Theatre last night, certainly did not disappoint the hopes of the most expectant. There is humor, there is a well-defined plot, there is love, hate, and pathos, all woven into one harmonious background of Jerome Kern's Music...
...condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty by God and country he gets this...
...long time would not give him what he wanted. When she became his mistress, he soon found her a hard one. Business troubles, his wife, a sick child, even golf had to go by the board when she summoned him. As her toils tightened Sherrill began to hate her, contemplated first suicide, then murder. He came close to committing both. But a lucky series of breaks gave him his self-respect again, gave him the strength to stand up against his vampire. When she saw her power over him was gone she went too. Sherrill, well-singed, told himself...
...learned canon of St. Ninian's Cathedral, Perth, Scotland. He finds it noteworthy that many a fairy tale deals with gnomes, dwarfs and such little folk who live in crevices, caves, dells, almost any place where they can hide from the natural men whom they often mortally hate & fear. Well may it be that the bitter Rumpelstilzchens of folklore date back to a long-lost pygmy race or to rude Neolithic men routed by the tale-telling ancestors of the Brothers Grimm. One striking point to Canon MacCulloch's thesis: fairies usually dislike iron and such wrought wares...
...notably absent. Denise was the fiery daughter of a provincial bourgeois family. Her mother, nearly as often as she put on her bonnet, clapped horns on her husband. He was weak and intelligent, thought there was nothing to be done about it. But Denise and her sisters began to hate their mother as soon as they understood gossip. Denise, strongest of the family, left home as soon as she could, went away to school, then to Paris, where she took Fellow-Student Jacques as her lover. She hoped big things for Jacques, but when he felt the call...