Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...radio that he was keeping his promise, quitting the air. Many a citizen found himself in hearty agreement with the political priest for the first time as he throbbed: "It is better, both for you and for me, for the country I serve and the church that I love, for me to be forgotten for the moment...
...convincing and original, despite the facts that it is mixed up with long digressions about the suffraget movement and that it is told largely by means of excerpts from Janet's diary. An orphan, marrying at 19 and bearing an unwanted child to a man she did not love, Janet had the additional ill luck to be given an inquiring and unconventional mind in an environment where any unprecedented action created talk. She tormented the Vicar with her peace meetings and suffraget agitation as much as he tormented her with his prejudices, his temper, his complaints that...
...town girl (Irene Dunne) who goes to the big city to make good, or rather a mean commercial artist (Melvyn Douglas). He discovered her secret, that she was a writer of smart books, exposed her and dishonored her in her own provincially smug town, and made her fall in love with him; but he was married...
Grant flies after her, but, despite the violent efforts of a friendly gangster, finds Bennett adamant. Disheartened and drunk he ponders what to give her as a wedding present until he remembers her love of fire-engines and thrills. Forthwith he summons to the place of marriage the firemen, the police, the riot squad, an ambulance from every hospital, an undertaker, and various electricians, street repair men, and maintenance trucks. The ensuing riot not only convinces Bennett that Grant is the right man for her, but greatly amused the critic and the rest of the audience. Grant is a superb...
...Framingham over Armistice Day and Climbed Nobscot "Mountain", looking over miles of Massachusetts though cold bright air. Roses in My Love's cheeks. The mountain is not much but steep in places and you get up a nice wind climbing in a hurry. A trail over boulders and around logs and it is all rather civilized because you meet people on their way down, but nevertheless the nicest hill to climb near Boston...