Word: loved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shortly after the first World War, Dr. Walter Johnstone Williams, dentist and British consul in Papeete, Tahiti, acquired the atoll of Tetiaroa . . . Dr. Williams was the only dentist in Papeete for years, and he did quite a business-considering the Polynesians' love for "glitter-work" in their mouths . The royal Pomare family fell in debt to Dr. Williams for gold fillings . . . so they gave him Tetiaroa to clear up the bill...
...story is told in one of 17 chapters, covering the activities of three dozen athletes who, in the author's opinion, did something noteworthy during the 1948 season. Waldman, a sportswriter for the Christian Science Monitor, is sufficiently familar with his subjects, but his lack of imagination and his love of acntimentality make his accounts trite and often contrived...
...weeks go by, Helen drops her unsavory friends under the influence of her unadmitted love for the musician. Then, just as his big chance comes, his instruments are stolen. Will Helen save the day? How will she get money fro new instruments? Will the young man realize her Sacrifice and forgive her thus compromising his Minneapolis mores...
laugh: a lively satire on cowboy movies, in which the hero is always a "buddy" to his female companion, reserving true love for his horse. Other comic material, including a skit about a Harvard man's first attempt at play-writing, falls flat in a most
...Guardsman" is the Ferene Molnar play in which the Lamis made their first hit in 1924. It is set in pre-World War 1 Vienna and concerns a celebrated acting couple who find that their love has grown cold after six months of married life. The husband decides to impersonate a Russian guardsman and woo his wife in disguise. To his consternation, he finds he is successful. Of such sophisticated nonsense is "The Guardsman" made...