Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Little's love of dogs is a projection from his healthy boyhood in and around Boston; his fondness for Scotch terriers in particular is an inheritance from his father, James Lovell Little, earliest breeder of the type in the U. S. Mice helped him get his doctor of science degree at Harvard, where he studied biology and genetics. While he was busy at administrative duties at the Carnegie Institution, the University of Maine and the University of Michigan, he kept mice (1,000 of them at Ann Arbor), studying as an avocation the heredity of their colors, of their...
Sleepy birds dreaming of love...
Karl and Anna. Men who fall in love with women merely by hearing about them or looking at their photographs or reading their letters are usually found only in empurpled romances. The Theatre Guild's seasonal curtain-raiser attempts to make such a man seem a creature of reality. In a Russian prison camp, Hero Karl is tortured by the lash of his captors and by the sick, contagious desire of his fellow-prisoner Richard for his wife Anna. Richard vividly describes Anna's habits, her womanliness, the mole on her hip, until Karl feels that he knows...
...tale of an aristocratic gentleman whose life's errand is to become the lover of a prima donna and whose ecstacy at her final acceptance is quickly changed to gentlemanly chagrin when she leaves him after their first night. Denouement: the Baron hears that his night of love was the result of a curse, muttered by the prima donna's previous lover on his deathbed. Upon hearing this the Baron can do nothing but die of shock, which he promptly does. Author Schnitzler's characters die easily, often...
...took Leicester's place as Queen's favorite when the Queen was over 50, long nosed, toothless, petulant. A few years later, harassed by his insubordination, she signed his death warrant. Alternating between vicious whim and heroism, no admirer ever brought her a full, rich, personal love. When she died, no man's hand could, by her will, touch her body to embalm...