Word: lover
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first thought that the girl had committed suicide, after shooting her lover, as both her wrists had been cut. Later, Belgrade police avowed themselves mystified...
Pedro is a Spanish version of many of the great tyrants of Italy, sensitive to beauty, patrons of the arts, commanding in personality, but calculating, cruel and dissolute. In spite of all Pedro maintains his nobility, his sensitiveness, and as champion of the common people and constant lover of Maria, he remains a sympathetic figure...
DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS?Eugene O'Neill's drab dissertation on home life in the backwoods of New England. A young wife, old husband, young lover and a murdered child...
...governor of an island and defies any one to take from him the woman he loves. Nobody tries. The curtain falls. The Steam Roller rolls blunderingly through three acts in the form or an inexpertly written part for Janet Beecher. Miss Beecher plays an imperious and exhausting spinster whose lover went away to China years ago. In point of fact, his affections remained at home with her sister, an item which the audience learns on his return in the first act. For the rest of the evening, he drums up courage to beard the spinster lion and does just that...
...Stevenson's affection for her appears rot to have been wholly sensual. Rather she filled a gap for him. He was a lonely youth, with few intimates other than his drunken cronies. She stands out significantly among all his later amours?reputable and otherwise. And Stevenson was ever the lover, his hot eager nature never happy unless his emotions were fed with passion...