Word: live
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Innocent little Denyse (daughter of Mario's best cliente) works Mario into her toils, and meekly proposes that he marry her after divorcing his wife. Aline, aware of all, saves Mario, their home, and the situation by a ruse, so that the couple is enabled at the end to live happily ever after amidst a brood of children and fake scenery...
Super-drastic, the Moscow Soviet's decree provided last week that the person responsible for every room (two families often live in one) must have available at all times a "sanitary passport." Inspectors will stamp this passport, certifying that the room has been aired as per decree. They will also note "improvements," such as greater tidiness, fewer bedbugs. If no improvements are noted after a specified period, luckless roomers will be fined...
...Hollywood films. In Forsaking All Others, Miss Bankhead of Alabama is called upon to play the part of a young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts her for a dark, rapacious beauty he has met abroad. "Well," sardonically observes Actress Bankhead, "anyhow, Jesus loves me." The indecisive groom forsakes his new wife for his old girl...
...late Rt. Rev. George Herbert Kinsolving, also tall and, like the rest of the family, personable, un-ministerial and straightforward, was Bishop of Texas. After his election someone told him of Sherman's statement that "if he owned Hell and Texas, he would farm out Texas and live in Hell." Said the Bishop: "Well, General Sherman seems to have had his choice, so I think I will go down and see what I can do with the farm." Bishop Kinsolving once appeared in Baltimore wearing a broad-brimmed hat. A bootblack asked him if he were Buffalo Bill...
Florida tourists, viewing the Florida scrub from an Oklawaha River steamer, find it picturesque but not enticing. Even most Florida crackers think the scrub too bewilderingly wild to live in. But this impenetrable-seeming wilderness of pine and sand was just suited to Lantry Jacklin's taste. Onetime moonshiner in Ca'lina, he had killed a revenue man and fled to Florida; the scrub seemed the safest place he could find...