Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ludlow Massacre. She stayed in Manhattan, experimented with Mexican drugs. They were reconciled, went abroad again, with Reed leaving for the front to write up the War, then for Russia to write up the Revolution. Once Reed sent her a cable: "N. T. and I have fallen in love with each other. My heart is broken." N. T. was the wife of a mutual friend. Growing more exuberant as life got harder, Reed wrote across his passport in the War zone: "I am a German and Austrian spy. I do it for money...
Mabel Dodge's recoil from her strenuous experiences in the upper world and underworld of the Left drove her back to the circles of more conventional artists. She embarked on a tormented love affair with Artist Maurice Sterne, eventually married him. Despondent, impatient, she took to psychoanalysis, which she enjoyed as "a kind of tattletaling." Then she frequented Christian Scientists, mediums, mystics, quacks, Buddhists and other heathen healers, as her third husband drifted away. Reed died in Moscow, Haywood stayed in Leavenworth penitentiary, Lippmann edited The New Republic, and her friends of the dead Bohemian days went their painful...
...mechanic (Randolph Scott) has an invention. Says Mavis: "I'd just love to see your model." The examination takes place in a barn. When it is over, Mavis Arden decides that she will take the young inventor back to Hollywood. Her plan is frustrated by Pressagent Stevens. By dangling tiny garments in front of her, he convinces her that the young man's fiancée is pregnant, causing Mavis to snort: "Fine goings on around here!" By the time she learns that the young man's relations with his fiancée are not premature...
...compelled Theodora to persuade her maiden aunts to give him a job as gardener. Then he persuaded her to go berry-picking in trousers, fishing on Sunday morning and, in a final grand explosion of her inhibitions, to break with her aunts. In doing so Theodora also announced her love for him. At this point, Grant was quick to see that he had bitten off more than he could chew...
Make Way for a Lady (RKO) is a resounding contribution to the Five Little Peppers school of cinema, showing what happens when a suburban high-school girl (Anne Shirley) undertakes to manage the sex life of her widowed father (Herbert Marshall). Convinced that he is in love with a lady novelist (Margot Grahame), she tries to wreck his romance with a schoolteacher (Gertrude Michael), does not quite succeed...