Word: lovering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...arrangement with New York State, he formed the Jules Bache Foundation. This enabled him to live on the third floor of his Manhattan Museum, enjoy his pictures, pay no taxes on the property. (In 1936, so many Bache holdings were outside the U.S. that Art-Lover Bache was unable to pay any Federal income tax at all that year.) But before he died, Jules Bache changed his mind about a projected Bache Museum, which was to resemble Manhattan's Frick Collection. In the huge Metropolitan Museum, he decided, the Bache pictures would forever receive expert care, would be enjoyed...
...with comets. His wife (Hedy Lamarr) sits home (as Astronomer Powell occasionally ascertains by a glance through his spare telescope), all undressed and no place to go. Then star-crossed Miss Lamarr falls into the hands of a female astrologer (Fay Bainter) who predicts the coming of an Ideal Lover so convincingly that Miss Lamarr mistakes the handiest air-raid warden (James Craig) for journey...
...President Batista patted him on the back, called him "Chico, great lover...
...wise and witty pedant: a lover of Greek verses, a professor of rhetoric, a biographer of Beethoven. He was the rotund trencherman: in the piping days of peace, he lunched on soup, a couple of trout, a partridge, vegetables, dessert, cheese and two bottles of Burgundy. He was a Gallic sentimentalist: cartoonists loved to draw him as a transparent body with half-a-dozen hearts. In politics he stood left of center, where the heart belongs, the leader of the Radical Socialists. In statesmanship he fell heir to Briand's mantle; he preached the gospel of a United States...
Last month Manhattan's small, exclusive Dial Press announced that it would soon publish the original version of one of the century's most blush-provoking literary works. This hitherto unpublished draft of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the late David Herbert Lawrence's distinguished novel about a titled lady who deserted her aristocratic but impotent husband for the family gamekeeper, will be issued next month in a first printing of 15,000 copies at $2.75 the copy...