Word: loved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Undisciplined, purposeless, irresponsible, the great names in "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age careen from vulgarity to greater vulgarity, while poseurs prey on ignorance and snobbishness, social climbers spend fortunes trying to get accepted. Elizabeth Drexel Lehr fell in love, waited until after her mother's death to plan her divorce. Then her lover died. Harry Lehr had quieted down, showed symptoms of acute melancholia before the War, which finally put an end to his way of life. He grew more & more morose; his mind slowly failed; he became panic-stricken at the thought of his despised wife...
...Oelrichs, Mrs. Belmont, they passed judgment on her, told him frankly, "We will make her the fashion. You need have no fear." But on their wedding night he dined alone, then, pale and nervous, told her that he had married her for her money, did not and never would love her, at last confessed that she was physically repulsive...
...Sylvia Sidney and Herbert Marshall, whose air of romantic maturity is accentuated by powdered temples, spectacles, and a polite, nostalgic way of asking for a kiss. Miss Sidney first becomes his leading lady (he is a playwright ) when getting fired as his secretary prods her into a love avowal, and ends as his fiancee after an interlude with Philip Reed, who symbolizes Princetonian youth. Accent on youth suffers less than most light pieces in translation to the screen, for, although its people sit around and talk a lot, they at least talk with wit. One funny situation occurs when Reed...
...plugging his tormentor between the eyes. For years he seemed to look into a gun barrel whenever he embarked on any peaceful venture. Once at a circus he accidentally bumped a roustabout who drew a pistol. Hardin, of course, killed him on the spot. When he fell in love a rival tried to take advantage of his sentimental state by robbing him. Hardin merely dropped his money to the floor, then killed the rival when he stooped over to pick it up. Not so deadly a shot as "Wild Bill" Hickok or the great King Fisher, Hardin was craftier...
...food are always excellent, and where oblique, unconsciously-poetic remarks can be plucked like ripe figs from the most casual conversation. Although the inhabitants of Stark Young's South seem to grow animated only when they discuss family history, they are distinguished by their even tempers and their love for their own quiet sections of the temperate zone. They may suffer like gentlefolk from post-Civil War melancholy but never from prickly heat...