Word: inamoratas
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...butterflies apart, sometimes she does it with a savagely sentimental reluctance. The stories in her latest collection illustrate both tendencies. Some of them: A horse-faced trained nurse keeps her long upper lip brightly firm while she takes contemptuous kindness as if it were not contempt. A cast-off inamorata soliloquizes in a taxi. Friends of the family are puzzled when a Perfect Couple, long married, split up for the valid but private reasons that he cannot stand her long fingernails, she his audible yawns. A wife from whose life the glory has departed clings to her faith...
...another, built up his business until he had put "a chain around England." Meanwhile his prostitute died of consumption and Julius learned to like good living. He married a well-born Jewess named Rachel, had affairs with actresses until he was 50. After that his daughter, Gabriel, became his inamorata. When she fell in love, Julius, a lonely old man tasting the futility that in most aphorisms is indelibly associated with using selfish methods to become a millionaire, crept off to Paris to die. Granddaughter of the du Maurier who wrote Trilby, daughter of Actor Sir Gerald du Maurier, Daphne...
...whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes him feel that to do so would be despicable. The lieutenant therefore brutally and gallantly insults his inamorata-to make her hate him-and then dies a hero's death by driving his boat, loaded with explosives, into an enemy fortification-much after the manner of two of the principals in Today We Live. All this is as implausible as it is fancy, hut what is neither...
...getter, international correspondent of the Chicago Globe. He appears on the screen captured by Riffs; he is rescued by the French, to the accompaniment of bullets, and grumbling by the agent of the Times. He goes to Paris, is decorated, and leaves for Moscow with his employer's inamorata, a girl with a soul. There he tricks the members of other papers, sits with Stalin, and generally conducts the sensational journalism of which he is an advocate. He is encouraged by Kate, a newspaperwoman, who, rather obviously, really cares for him, and whom he does not appreciate. Eventually...
...shows an overgrown lout named Ronald Colgate (George "Slim" Summerville) trying to escape from the apron strings of an idiotically devoted mother (Laura Hope Crews) long enough to pay court to the nurse (Zasu Pitts) in a department store depositary for infants. When Ronald finally manages to marry his inamorata, Mrs. Colgate follows them to Niagara Falls on their honeymoon, spoils their fun. Finally friends of the young couple arrange to have Ronald witness his wife being abducted. This leads him to leap out of the wheel chair to which his mother has reduced him, establish his independence...