Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should wake up tomorrow morning and through the course of the day find your home-loving mother being courted by a roue, your august father succumbing to the soft inpeachments of an ogling actress, your elder sister flinging herself at a married artist, and your younger brother making love to a woman who enters and exits over the garden wall, you doubtless would retire to bed in the evening, very willing to "call it a day." Dodie Smith has conceived of just such a situation and she has fittingly dubbed her play "Call It A Day." After the delightful performance...
...magic word in German or French may not be at once recognizable, the handwriting on the wall is always plain to any literate person, thus demonstrating simultaneously the advantages of an education, and the marvellous potentialities of an international languages, such as Esperanto, to supplement that of love...
...burden of ideas, An American Testament pictures an environment that no other autobiographer has described so fully-the shifting, seething little world of impoverished and defiant Greenwich Village scriveners, of radical magazines run on a shoestring, of fierce controversies on esthetic and political subjects, of Communist meetings, transient love affairs, protest demonstrations, anti-war parades, strikes, arguments, psychoanalysis, unfinished novels and unwritten poems, of stories, gossip, limitless ambition, ineffectuality, tolerance and intolerance. As is the case with most of the current memoirs, the details of Joseph Freeman's personal story are less interesting than their background. Born...
Cecil Lewis' more conventional War experiences included a love affair with the mistress of a French officer, a number of accidents and one wound, a bad defeat in mimic warfare with the great French Pilot Guynemer, flights through the spectacular bombardment that opened the Somme offensive, a ludicrous mishap when his plane got away and raced around a field until it crashed. At 19 he was exhausted, weakened with eyestrain, his nerves ajangle, motivated only by a fatalistic conviction that, he would get through. The only time Lewis felt any anger against an enemy air man was during...
...STONES AWAKE-Carleton Beals- Lippincott ($2.50). The long, descriptive, awkwardly-written chronicle covering the affairs of a beautiful, sympathetic Mexican peasant girl, Esperanza, from the Diaz regime of 1910 to the present. Her adventures include two love affairs, widowhood, direct or indirect participation in many a revolution...