Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wrote. "Pick girl who wears glasses. Start off by asking a woman what she thinks is the most beautiful thing in the world . . . Believe just the opposite of what people say, especially men, and you will be right 98% of the time . . . Gambling diverts men faster than lechery . . . Love, luck, etc. return in cycles...
...also mulled ways & means of getting the boodle, set down a sort of burglar's handbook: "Bend end of small screw driver to get between glass and putty . . . Buy diamonds with cash from Cartier's-when I want to sell a hot one show the receipt . . . Dogs love the smell and taste of cinnamon . . . Scotch Tape stuck on a pane of frosted glass enables one to see through, but not out . . . use bulb in toilet bowl to hide diamonds . . . Leave phony overcoat button at scene...
...folks right before, he told reporters, "because you've misrepresented me for 20 years, and had me younger, not older." Not that age makes any difference, he added: "You should never quit playing because you are old-you grow old because you quit playing. I enjoy life. I love life. I love people." Gloria Swanson, high-styled siren of silent movies, showed up in shorts and a crew hat (but stuck to high-heeled shoes) as she took time out from her comeback chores in Sunset Boulevard to water the petunias with Michelle Farmer, 17, her daughter...
...final turn. By then, Djeddah had already faded but Coronation charged on to win by four lengths over Double Rose, paying 4-1 francs for 1. Said one dejected infielder as the numbers went up: "Encore une pour le trust [One more for the trust]." The sentimentalists did better: Love Goddess Hayworth's filly paid a handsome...
...Love. The book is a series of lectures delivered under dramatic conditions. In 1934, as professor of systematic theology at Germany's University of Bonn, Barth was one of the first academicians to defy Hitler by refusing to take the oath of loyalty. As a result, he was barred from Germany, where most of his teaching and preaching had been carried on. In the summer of 1946, when Bonn's war-ruined university was reestablishing itself in a half-blasted castle, Theologian Barth was invited to return. Lecturing at 7 o'clock in the morning, "after...