Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking to a group of army cooking experts at England's military training ground, Aldershot, Leslie Hore-Belisha, Britain's bachelor Secretary of State for War, said: "I hope you men will spread a love of cooking to your wives, because my own requirements in that respect are so exacting that I have never been able to find a wife to come up to that standard." Cracked a Tommy: "Join the army...
...Love I'm After (Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Eric Blore...
...saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still runs Knox with the same vigorous skill that in 30 years has made it a model industry in both profits and employe relations...
...emphasis shifts to Jacques' older brother, Antoine, a young doctor, who is determined to get Jacques out of the reformatory where his father has put him. Third book, The Springtime of Life, shows Jacques' rehabilitation under Antoine's mixed affectionate and exasperated guidance, his falling in love with Daniel's sister Jenny. Later books describe Jacques' second disappearance. Antoine's second discovery of him after he has written autobiographical novels under another name, and has become a revolutionist...
...Slogum was a mean woman, even for the tough Nebraska frontier. When she got in trouble with the law because she was forcing her older sons to rustle cattle, she squeezed out of it by prostituting a pretty daughter to the sheriff. When her youngest son, Ward, fell in love with the daughter of a Polish settler, Mother Slogum fixed him up neatly: She went to the Pole, tried to buy the girl for her brothel, with the result that Ward was half killed the next time he came courting. When her daughter Annette sneaked off with a poor neighbor...