Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...into the House of Commons where British sportsmanship assured him a great cheer. Mr. Chamberlain heartily laughed off such Labor questions about his recent exchange of personal missives on Spain with Benito Mussolini (TIME, Aug. 9) as: "Could these letters properly be described as love letters?" The House was told by British War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha what has long been known and frequently denied, that the Spanish Rightists have installed artillery commanding Britain's chief Mediterranean base. "The guns on the Strait of Gibraltar," said Mr. Hore-Belisha, "are of various calibres from 12-inch howitzers downward...
...criticisms of his tutor, along to his successors. Thereafter "the complacent Fellow sat in his armchair, agreeably engrossed in his own problems, while year after year different pupils read him the same essays." The Briant conclusions: Not more than 20% of Oxford's students attend the university for "love of learning"; an undergraduate with average common sense can acquire a "pass" degree with two weeks' work in each eight-weeks' term...
...Captain Nagle (Jerome Cowan), gave him a blue cap when he made him first mate of the fishing schooner; after that Terangi was happier than ever. His happiness reached a vivid, lyric pinnacle when he was married in the Catholic church, in front of all the island, to his love, Marama (Dorothy Lamour). He did not understand her nightmare a few nights later when she dreamt of a high wind and birds flying away. Its omen seemed to have no bearing on the six-months' jail sentence he drew on his next trip for hitting a white bully...
Freshman Coach Harvey Love had divided the crews as evenly as possible, and he intimated that he had no idea which shell would...
Then they get jobs as butler and maid, signing their own references, and each enslaves in the bonds of love the members of the family of the opposite sex. All is exceedingly merry until Commissar Gorotchenko appears. He has been immoderately unkind to both of them, and they pelt him with clever invective when he interviews them in the kitchen...