Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eighty Yardling oarsmen last night listened to Harvey Love, Freshman crew coach, emphasize the need for training. At the same meeting, which was held at seven o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union, Tom Bolles, Varsity crew coach, expressed his hope that the Harvard crew would make the 1940 Olympics...
Peopled with the stock characters of a Western thriller, Boom Town is notable for this realistic picture of its gunmen. The story revolves around Frank O'Rielly, who stumbles on a silver mine, exploits it with a young Eastern assayer, gets rich, falls in love with his partner's wife. Knocking down too many braggarts and bullies to be quite real, O'Rielly is, nevertheless, an interesting sketch, although hardly more; he is too intelligent to fit into the brutal, amoral environment in which he lives, but even more contemptuous of the world of bankers and speculators...
Laid against this background of Spanish disorder, Mr. Witt Among The Rebels is a deft little novel that can be read as a political study, as a love story about a discreet Englishman and an elemental Spanish girl, or as a cool satire on liberals. When the revolution broke out, Mr. Witt was a consulting engineer in the naval arsenal, a cultured, book-collecting, slightly bald Victorian gentleman of 53, whose one adventurous act had been to marry Milagritos, 18 years younger than himself. Warm-blooded and grey-eyed, Milagritos was a lovely puzzle for Mr. Witt. At once serene...
...Faith Baldwin's most involved accounts of the complications that can befall a simple family. In the ultimate trial, to which the whole picture leads up, we see a Harvard Freshman tensely watching his mother (Frieda Inescort), a beautiful barrister with whom he is hopelessly in love, defend his step-mother (Heather Angel) for the murder of their former husband, while the District Attorney (Walter Abel) does his best to outwit the attorney for the defense, with whom he, too, is hopelessly in love...
Said Thruston ast night, 'I am torn between my love for Jane and the rogue in my spirit. What I wil decide, nobody knows, including myself." His voice sounded dreamy. "I might even ship her a spitting cobra," he mused...