Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lover of good music and a lover of fair play, I protest against the sneer at Irving Berlin in TIME of May 10, p. 18. I fail to see why the cafe in which the little boy earned his living should be dragged out again and again for the sole purpose of insulting one of our real musical geniuses...
...These men are right, as usual, from a financial viewpoint. It is doubtful whether the engaging and lancelike humors of this piece will interest a great many people for a protracted period. On the other hand, the production seems one of the very few this season that the true lover of the theatre cannot afford to miss...
...Ahab's betrothed. In one scene, beneath a tropic moon, John Bar more, aided and abetted by Miss Costello--we mention this merely by the way--utterly puts Mr. Valentino to shame I you have not yet sent in your vote to the film magazines for the greatest lover of 1926, don't overlook John. We are, after seeing "The Sea Beast", backing him heavily for the title...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC?Walter Hampden's revival of the sound old romance about a lover with a big nose...
...natives refuse to admit that Pele, goddess of volcanoes, will take human life, although she may destroy human habitation. The legend says that, jilted by a mortal lover, she slew him and then was so mortified she made a vow never to do such a thing again. Herds of cattle that have climbed naturally to a knoll or ridge to escape lava, are said to have been "spared" by Pele, who sent her wrath around them. A man whose legs were clipped off by a hot boulder was said, after his demise, to have "stumbled into a crevice...