Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attachment, she is bequeathed the estate of an old lady whom she nurses and later wins a court fight to gain possession of it. Her choice is between working among her people in the south, or going off with the doctor, who has pursued her, to start life anew...
...furtherance of civilization. On our five-day cruise through the Dutch canals we found "Heineken's Bier" superior to any brand on tap at Jim Cronin's. Judging by our boat, however, the country's sea power is declining. "The "Swallow IT" was a 20-foot converted life boat with a lowerable mast which left the vessel still too high to go under bridges, an engine which required the constant attention of two deafencd men, and a stove that never worked. But the scenery and the people made up for the lack in the transportation...
...went under draw bridges the operators lowered small wooden shoes so we could put in a few cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River" by Bing Crosby and the Andrew Sisters...
Crowell is the same publisher who brought out Cheaper by the Dozen (TIME,, June 13), another tale of life with father, which was a surprise bestseller last spring. With full publicity behind it, Riot could easily sell almost as well. Yet the book has little of Dozen's natural air of comedy in it; it relies on carefully measured doses of laughing gas, slightly under pressure...
...predictably: a sad-eyed suicide breaks off knifing himself in a graveyard to retrieve a little girl's balloon; the hero loses his girl to his boss, and finds her married to the boss's chauffeur. Roemer has tried to knit the pace and problems of contemporary life into the limitations of a silent film; disunity and exaggeration result...