Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world loves a lover and all Spain loves a toreador, and what would be the use of toreadors if bulls could no longer be fought ? Yet, last week, the Iberian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals came into being for the express purpose of warring on bullfighting. Paradox upon paradox, the Society was headed by no less a person than H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the Heir-Apparent, and T.R.H. The Infantas Beatrix and Maria Cristina...
...Witt was without a taproot. Having drifted from New Orleans to Texas to Paris to Biarritz, Vienna, Palermo, Rome, London, she was as native to one bit of geography as another. Nor could people, any person, hold her. She saw through them, always had her own way. Her best lover, impetuous, paint-daubing Rico, she had subjugated. Now he was merely the futile, shallow Sir Henry Carrington, would-be London society painter, her husband. Their relation had paled to nervous platonism, Lou doubting there was a man who could think quickly and far enough, love largely enough, to fulfill...
...Manicure Girl. It all simmers down to whether or not you like Bebe Daniels. For, in these days of many cinemas, it is difficult to become burningly excited over the story of a poor girl, her poor but honest lover, her married pursuer. An impression of Manhattan life is offered for one who has never been there. There is some agreeable comedy; chiefly, there is Bebe Daniels...
...largest ten towns in France, in fact. There are several theatres, which companies from Paris visit weekly, while there are three movie houses. In addition there are a great number of concerts, and every evening one can find one somewhere in the city, if one is a music-lover...
...George had succumbed to creditors and the Gambling Laws, but the Crown, onetime tavern, had turned into a thriving hotel; Belle, onetime wanton, into a good mother; Ernley, onetime lover, into a paunchy philanderer. As Daniel supported himself cleaning out the local Rector's pigsty, he felt that his past was coming back to choke him. Belle, outraged by her husband's unfaithfulness, conducted Daniel to a lodging house in Newhaven. He realized that it was anger that had made her surrender herself. She expected him, that night, to kill the last of her love for Ernley...