Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...authors had thitherto dared treat openly of females who "did." Author Allen's Herminia Barton not only "did" but gloried in it, and he in her. Daughter of a dean, school mistress of proper young ladies, Herminia positively refused to be made an honest woman, though her sensible lover, Alan Merrick, pleaded, and her would-be father-in-law cabled to them in Perugia with a flourish. Nevertheless, Victorian sympathy surged heavily to Herminia and the school of Elinor Glyn was founded when illegitimate little Dolores turned out a begrudging, bourgeois little Dolly, insensitive to the noble thing...
...other. The key line is classic, "Marriage without obstacles isn't tempting to two such young simpletons." So the fathers fight, the children refuse to accept the feud as final separation, and Romeo-and-Juliet-like they defy the quarrel. The young lady is being abducted, her lover saves her. The fathers relent. All is forgiven. Curtain...
...York World, which believes that Negroes in the South are strung up every day or two, despatches one of its staff men, Oliver H. P. Garrett, who is evidently quite a 'nigger lover'. . . . It is plain anybody can see he is trying to make maudlin sentiment for the colored folks who were killed by irate citizens when the South Carolina Court failed to do its duty...
John Gilbert undertakes to show Douglas Fairbanks how to be a hero amongst daredevils, John Barrymore how to be a lover amongst women. His is an ironical failure. Though personally executing all the heroic acrobatics, he does not film real. One misses the "alive" manner that makes Actor Fairbanks' extravaganzas seem plausible, joyous adventure. Though perhaps foremost dream lover of the fair half of the U. S., he does not achieve the insolent elegance of a Don Juan like John Barrymore's. Hence, Bardelys is not magnificent...
...this was the truest answer, yet he regarded himself quite simply and scientifically as "differing" from faithful folk who "make themselves quite easy by intuition." He avoided cosmic thoughts, kept his writing purposely free from Pantheism, stuck to his species and specimens and "let God go" as imponderable. The Lover of mankind was his second greatest role. He was too gentle, reasonable, humble to quarrel or criticize. Attacks upon himself left him unmoved. Sociably inclined, he had to contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen...