Word: liaison
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like almost every hero in the cinema, Bruce Foster finds time, while building up his fortunes, for an elaborate sex life. First he enjoys a liaison with an English artist (Elizabeth Allen), to whom he explains his theory that marriage is a nuisance. Next he gets engaged to a slick and silvery cosmeticist (Doris Kenyon) until she grows too arduously possessive. When he breaks their engagement, the cosmeticist throws herself out a window and Bruce Foster goes back to his artist, who finds him in the speakeasy where he started. Somehow, the suicide of his fiancee has filled him with...
...Devil's in Love is a typical Foreign Legion picture, about a medical officer (Victor Jory) who, unjustly convicted of poisoning his major, escapes to a seaside town. After having a liaison with a handsome cabaret hostess (Vivienne Osborne), he meets and falls in love with the fiancee (Loretta Young) of his friend Captain Jean Fabien (David Manners). Bullets and fever, as is usually the case in French North Africa, presently improve the situation. A sick orderly confesses to killing the major, whom no one liked anyway. Fabien gets a bullet and a splendid funeral, at which his fiancee...
...Stockholm, via London, President Roosevelt last week sent New York's Laurence Adolf Steinhardt, nephew of famed, orchidaceous Lawyer Samuel Untermyer who was once a Tammany braintruster. While U. S. Minister at the court of King Gustaf V. Mr. Steinhardt was expected to set up the liaison which might bring Soviet Russia recognition from...
Besides using Edward Stettinius as liaison man with the tycoons, and Attorney General Cummings as a bear to chase industries from behind, General Johnson engaged Charles F. Horner of Kansas City to work up enthusiasm for co-operation with the Recovery Administration. During the War Mr. Horner helped organize the "Four-Minute" men for selling Liberty Bonds. Like his old, his new job is to select a Recovery Act symbol for display in store windows and on factory chimneys, to make propaganda for public support...
...said to herself: "There must be more to this sex-life than just swimming over each other's eggs." She put a badge on her right shoulder saying "I will share," paid a visit to Fanny Bored, the world's oldest mermaid, finally had an uncomfortable liaison on a barnacle bed, with an octopus...