Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love at all have producers for this innovation. They object to speculators interfering in the orderly marketing of their product, perhaps some day dumping their holdings and breaking the price. Another objection from the producers' standpoint is the fact that if any considerable quantity of platinum were held by the public any arbitrary rise in price would be checked by public selling. Last week's sudden rise in platinum prices, whether or not designed for the purpose, put the offerers of platinum certificates in a difficult spot. If they sold much metal at that high price...
...when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio broadcast which gives fame to Juliet and to Sing Baby Sing a final series...
Adorned with able comics (Patsy Kelly, Ted Healy, Gregory Ratoff), full of good tunes (Love Will Tell, You Turned the Tables on Me, When Did You Leave Heaven), Sing Baby Sing deserts the polite little plots which are the current fashion in screen musicals, originates its own form. It is a combination of hilarious farce and bigtime revue...
Brilliantly as Sandburg has captured the flavor of unrecorded wisecracks, most readers will find The People, Yes growing diffuse as the poet approaches his climax and speaks in his own idiom instead of that of his hero. He repeats with love Abe Lincoln's salty observations on the poor, sees Lincoln as one of the people elevated to power who never forgot his origins. He repeats with scorn Hamilton's "Your people, sir, is a great beast." Brooding on unemployment, hard times, strikes, revolutions, wars, he sees the people succumbing to one false leader after another, tricked...
...character study of a girl who hovers at the edge of a neurotic revulsion against the role of her sex. Raised in a commonplace, puritanical Iowa town, Selma thought one of her schoolmates was going to have a baby because a boy kissed her. In college she fell in love with an evangelist, became deeply religious, watched the unfolding of an ugly campus "romance" when an effeminate music teacher married to stop the gossip that was threatening his job. At home she saw a still more sordid end to romance when Kirby Townsend married, communicated a venereal disease...