Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...haired, sensationally beauteous, hot-tempered and flirtatious, she found lusty young San Francisco and its men exactly to her taste. She cut loose from her brother, lived around in various hotels, speculated with an inheritance, made money for a while, ended up broke in 1880. Being also unhappy in love, she tried to kill herself by drinking poison. When she met rich U. S. Senator William Sharon, "King of the Comstock Lode," she was glad she had failed. He owned two of San Francisco's hotels, the Grand and the Palace, and shortly installed Sarah Althea in the Grand...
...picturesque feature of pre-War Hungary still survives in that country- the love of dueling. Last year even the late Premier Julius Gömbös realized that honor could not be satisfied until he and the man with whom he had quarreled, Deputy Tibor Eckhardt, had trudged into a gloomy cavalry shed and each had fired a shot over the other's head...
...aspects of England are expressed in this School, all the Englishman's love of his land and sea, even for nature in her wilder forms abroad. The paleness and the delicacy of brushwork, compared to the usual heavy water colors of today, was used for a special reason. It was their idea to transmit by water color, as no other medium can, the clearness and depth of the air and the translucence of color and light...
...thousand petitioners on his behalf are not the only ones to rejoice that Dr. Kilpatrick is given a fresh mount from which to tilt at his foes. With John Dewey and George Counts he is one of the "three bad boys" of Morningside Heights, who love always to blow up old dogmas of education. Sailing with great gusto into the teaching based on folkways and tradition, he preaches a schooling tied to the life of today, teaching the latest social problems in the everchanging, indeterminate manner of modern culture itself. The great object of his scorn is the smugness with...
...style. This book really imparts to the reader a feeling of the excitement with which Pushkin's life was led. It was a life spent in the midst of the "madding crowd's ignoble strife", for Pushkin early became involved by association with revolutionaries, and his personal life--his love affairs--was multifarious and absorbing...