Word: loved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...made a cinema 17 years ago that was a good deal like this.* It was a costume drama too, and even with the experimental craftsmanship of the time hardly more sketchy and grandiloquent than The Oppressed, where the daughter of the Spanish High Constable to the Netherlands is in love with the leader of the oppressed Flemings. The photography might be 20 years old and so might the sword fights, the kisses in jail, the pursuit on horseback, the Inquisition, the pardon delivered at the scaffold by the king's messenger. Only good shot: Raquel Meller crossing herself...
Albertine has blue, almond-shaped eyes and her black hair ripples. Jealous of her girl friends, unable to do without her in her absence yet often feeling bored in her presence, the "I" of the story takes Albertine to live with him in his house. There he discovers that "love ... is what we feel for a person whose actions seem rather to arouse our jealousy." If Albertine arouses her "darling Marcel's" jealousy, it is through small fault of her own, for she most industriously lies to the exhaustive questionnaire he conducts whenever she comes home of an evening...
...wife. Soon Mary Victoria was pregnant, too, but that did not prevent Welding from deserting her "to find a place where there are high mountains and snows that never melt and nothing else except loneliness." Mary Victoria remained with her father because, "even though I have lost love, I may become a power for good in the life of my child." Milly went to New York on the trail of "something worth loving...
Heavyweight champion of England and Mary's onetime sweetheart, Sailor Joe Mummery conceived a fondness for her boy, Otho, when Mary's husband died. He sent him "up to Oxford" to learn boxing and other sciences. There Otho, weak-kneed through love of his own sweetheart, one Margaret, failed to conquer Margaret's brother at fisticuffs, thus losing Joe's esteem and help...
Every year one talented man, usually young, writes a novel which France's Goncourt Academy immortalizes. This, Author Constantin-Weyer's novel, is the 25th to win the prize. A Man Scans His Past tells a story as much of prairies and snows as of death and love in Canada. Poetic descriptions of nature are lavishly strewn over a French horse-trader's trek from the U. S. to Canada where he sells his herd; then his mush onward by sled and dog, to the frozen Northwest for furs. On the way back death comes...