Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over her muddy shoes, his disheveled golf suit. Later she joined the family circle when Woodrow Wilson read aloud, went for automobile rides with him and Miss Bones. Barely two months later when the President proposed marriage, she was so surprised that she blurted: "Oh, you can't love me, for you don't really know me; and it is less than a year since your wife died." Said Woodrow Wilson: "Little girl, in this place time is not measured by weeks, or months, or years, but by deep human experiences...
...celebrities whom Mrs. Wilson did not warm to were Queen Marie of Rumania, who referred to her "passionate" daughter Ileana as "my love child," and Britain's Margot Asquith, who struck "matches as I have seen certain men do, on their own anatomy." > Even before Woodrow Wilson broke with Secretary of State Lansing and Colonel House, Mrs. Wilson was convinced that both were disloyal. When she called House a "jellyfish" for making concessions at the Peace Conference during Wilson's absence, Woodrow Wilson answered: "Well, God made jellyfish, so, as Shakespeare said about a man, therefore...
...child in India, Hostess Hughes-Hallett was taught by her father, a British Army officer, to love all animals and especially those that other people despised. When she was three, Father Holmes-Tidy got her used to snakes by keeping a 14-foot python as a house pet. Live snakes are not always available to city dwellers, and when the Hughes-Halletts first moved to Detroit, Mrs. Hughes-Hallett had a hard time getting enough pets. She solved the problem by calling up the Police Department and requesting that any snakes they found be turned over to her. Commented indulgent...
...This was not so on the World-Telegram. His contract obliged him to follow the policy of the paper, and last year he had to draw two cartoons (pillorying a borough president's assistant because he was a Communist) that outraged his sense of fairness. Since then, no love has been lost between him and Executive Editor Lee B. Wood...
...route to Hollywood to make his first U. S. picture for Producer David Selznick, pudgy British Director Alfred Hitchcock (The Lady Vanishes) stopped off to lecture Yale drama students in cinemanufacture. Excerpt: "Suspense can be introduced in a simple love story as well as the mystery or 'whodunit' picture. Make the audience suffer as much as possible...