Word: lover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other concerns a poor girl who marries the German who killed her lover in the World War. During Swift's madness the two lovers appear as his servants. Few readers will be able to follow Author Sitwell's symbolical connection between the modern world and the egomania that drove Swift to destroy the lives of Stella and Vanessa because he would neither live with them nor leave them alone...
...sentenced to be shot, Mr. Witt raced to save him, although he had always been mildly disturbed by Milagritos' affection for the boy. But when he finally had the power to stop the execution, he remembered little ambiguous remarks Milagritos had made, wondered if her cousin was her lover. A terrible creeping apathy left Mr. Witt sitting by, inert, trembling, preoccupied, while the cousin went to his death. Then, to square himself with his conscience, Mr. Witt had to believe that Milagritos had betrayed him. At last this upright, self-respecting gentleman spent his nights prowling like a baffled...
...Sorel or Mistinguett had eloped to Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to appear in a leading Tokyo theatre. For a time she was the Viscountess Takeuchi, recently was said to have taken as her lover a Japanese Communist writer, Ryokichi Sugimoto. Last week this pair were reported out sleighing on the snow-covered island of Sakhalin, half Japanese, half Soviet. Suddenly the Japanese sleigh driver found himself being nudged in the ribs by Comrade Sugimoto with a pistol. The driver halted, watched, terrified and helpless...
...Okada mourned her as a traitress to Japan, morally dead. The Japanese Government ordered its consul at Alexandrovsk, Russian Sakhalin, to "demand full information." But over their beer in Tokyo hard-to-convince U. S. journalists, suspicious of a publicity hoax, agreed that so far as they knew the lover of Miss Okada had been not Sugimoto but a mildly radical Japanese theatrical producer, Yoshimasa Yoshida. Sure enough, part of their suspicion was confirmed. Japanese dispatches from Sakhalin declared that the lover in the case was indeed Yoshida but still insisted that he and Miss Okada had eloped...
Monopoly? Homer Cummings and the Department of Justice have for the last few months been looking into the way the newsprint mills fix what to charge the publishers. Formerly newsprint prices fluctuated as restlessly as any lover of free competition could desire. But in more recent times (and consistently since the newsprint industry tasted the sweets of NRA) it has announced its next year's contract price all at once-and the price is generally the lowest asked by any mill turning out more than 100,000 tons a year. In the majority of cases this mill has been...