Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems of business drove him to search for a new career; his increased taxes, which he believed were greater than any paid in England, gave him a sense of personal grievance; his ability to pay for wine and fireworks for his supporters made him popular; his vanity and his love of display made him malleable in the hands of politicians; his property helped to make the revolution seem respectable, and his essential conservatism made him a valuable check against the radicals...
...spectacle, at which John Robinson (Robin) Jeffers has been staring in awe since he settled at Carmel in 1914, human lives and the human race itself look infinitely tiny and disgusting to him; having beheld the stars above the sea he has seemed to conclude, for example, that the love of man and woman is nastiness. Critics who inquire how the conclusion follows from the evidence have been referred by the poet to "instinct," i.e., no rational process is involved...
Tatyana Bers Kuzminskaya, who was born in 1846 and died in 1925, was no more than a child when she and her elder sisters, Liza and Sonya, were caught in Tolstoy's love-web. Sister Liza fell madly in love with young Tolstoy-only to find that he was in love with sister Sonya, who became his wife. Tatyana herself got the next best break: her brother-in-law admired her so much that he made her the model for his heroine, Natasha Rostova, in War and Peace...
...sentiment in Mr. Cain's characters. Even in The Postman Always Rings Twice (1934), Frank, though handy enough at murder with a wrench, sometimes thought about God while in swimming. The Moth gets its title from the fluttering blue-green Luna moth that Jack Dillon falls in love with as a little boy and ever after remembers at beautiful moments...
...Quisisana [Hotel] and as we walked past they lifted heavy-lidded eyes to look appreciatively at my wife. Two of them, mounted on plump donkeys, followed us down the street, and we heard one say to his companion, who burdened the air with lusty sighs, 'You in love again...