Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Anticipating the love of luxury characteristic among some of Harvard's undergraduates, the Harvard Club of Boston offers an opportunity to go to the Yale game via the special train which is annually run for the convenience of members...
...otherwise I simply love...
...with the return of 18-year-old Peter Fury to the slums after he had been expelled from college where he was studying to be a priest. It ended, 549 pages later, with his going to sea after he had destroyed his mother's last hope, had a love affair with Sheila, his brother's wife, witnessed a general strike. Most vivid characterization was the demoniac Mrs. Fury, who fought the squalor that rose like a flood around her and was defeated in every hope...
...interest, pledged her furniture, the earnings of her family, the possessions of her son-in-law, the compensation paid for her son's injury. At the day of reckoning Peter returns after a year at sea, is astonished when the ugly, middle-aged moneylender falls in love with him. Overwhelmed by her passion, Mrs. Ragner relaxes the screws on the Furys, until Peter reveals his disgust, neglects...
...extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments and advantages as a theatre for youthful lovemaking, served as the central figure. Not exactly a novel, Clutch and Differential is by George Weller, whose first book, Not to Eat, Not for Love, published three years ago, was a witty college story laid in his alma mater, Harvard. The elusive theme of his new work is taken from an automobile sales circular: "Bodies never cease changing . . . but power in motor vehicles is still infused at the clutch and discharged through the differential. Beneath American...