Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...LOVE AND HAPPINESS-I. M. Hotep- Knopf...
...marry," said urbane Philosopher George Santayana, "as their fortunes prove." That women play a big part in assisting fortune was established again last month by four books on the art and science of marriage. Written for women, they cover all sides of the subject, from advice on illicit love affairs to instructions on how to can tomatoes...
...Love and Happiness is a good-natured book of the benevolent, family-physician, don't-worry-there's-nothing-to-it type, explaining frigidity, homosexuality, adultery, venereal diseases and a variety of semi-clinical matters with a joviality that is sometimes excessive. "Here comes a young lady," says Dr. Hotep, "who is beginning to wonder when she will become 'promiscuous'-when she has had three lovers, or when she has had ten." Other perplexed souls who poured out their problems to Dr. Hotep included two well-brought-up college girls who wondered if it was safe...
...recondite data of the town, and also upon a prominent citizen to sketch in the general tenor of the place and to answer the questions of a Communist, a cultural uplift lady, and a W. C. T. U. worker, all scattered through the audience. The second act deals with love and marriage, and the third with death...
...recover the mental balance they have destroyed. Son Howard is a handsome, stupid, unprincipled college boy who is always borrowing money, wrecking his father's cars, and trying to lie his way out. Daughter Sara is a handsome, ill-natured poseur who becomes a Communist, falls in love with an agitator, overdraws her allowance of $1,000 a year and spends most of her time making poisonous remarks about her father. Thus, although it contains the story of Corn-plow's flight to Europe and the eventual reconciliation of his family as a result, most of The Prodigal...