Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...home-lover, he proceeded with his wife and two of his children to the place of his birth in Tredegar, Wales. There he gently touched some grey stones, said: "Here is the old firegrate, where my mother used to tell me stories about fairies...
Distinctions are unknown to him. President Coolidge is his good friend. When Paul Jr. wrote a poem about Lindbergh, the President, no lover of poetry, sent an unusually prompt and cordial note of Presidential praise. Three men won executive pardons because Publisher Block intervened. With Nominee Smith, it is a question of "Al" and "Paul." But Publisher Block is equally fond of Ballplayer Ruth, Mauler Dempsey, Banker Kahn, Globetrotter Walker, Parson Cadman. Said Friend Block, last week: "My wife's hobbies are jades and antiques. Mine are newspapers and human beings...
...growing pains alternate dull with exasperating. Knowing nothing of women, Nat is tricked into marrying one of the worst; then goes off to war (the Great War again). When he got home his wife announced herself unfaithful, and wanting a divorce soon-but not till convenient for her lover. Meanwhile she proposed to satisfy her husband's immediate desire of her, and spineless Nat accepted the situation, complete with carnal favors. Happily, none of the main characters is convincing-not even Cousin (by marriage) Ann who comes to Nat's rescue...
...this man who had treated her as his own, Brook escaped from Tony to Constantinople with a missionary friend of Caleb, and not till years later did she realize what her mother had wished for her. For luckily an English husband rescued her from the missionaries, and later a lover in Paris rescues her from her duty. That she is glad to be rescued, in spite of criticism, consummates at last her mother's ideal of joyous living. Author Glaspell advocates this pagan ideal superfluously. But whatever her "message," she draws with poignancy the conflict and reconciliation between mother...
...conversant with the Charleston recall various recent fantasies; and the wilful woman who (almost) came to woeful end has been heard of before. She would have her profession, and she did excel at it, so the gods had to interfere and deposit her in the domesticating arms of her lover, soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks. Athene promised to teach her, and repented when the pupil surpassed her instructress...