Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bloody invasion of Antwerp, the Mayor suggests a ruse: he will pretend to be dead and the Aldermen, mourning at his bier, will be spared the necessity of resisting the intruders. When the Spaniards arrive, the men of Boom-except a young painter named Peter Breughel, in love with the Mayor's daughter-are nowhere in sight, but Boom's ladies, disgusted with their chicken-hearted husbands, are waiting outside the gates. They present their guests with the key to the city, and that night, while the Mayor writhes in impotent fury, the Duke, his hungry friar...
...Washington he proposed the Legion of Decency to boycott indecent movies. The Legion was formed, with Cincinnati's Archbishop McNicholas (see p. 33) at its head, and Bishop Cantwell became well hated by the motion picture industry. Since then new film profits have turned this hate to love...
...Ridge (see above), presents detailed cross-sections from the daily life of its tin-pot Napoleons and apprentice Casanovas. A kindly teacher of English who considers Browning sonnets more important than Browning machine guns is tormented by the boys until he loses his job, to the detriment of his love life. Bright Honor points out that education at Newtown is smothered under the pressure of military mumbo-jumbo, a fact of no importance to parents who send their boys there to get rid of them, or because they will not eat their spinach...
Booked for a radio interview along with Cinemartist Walt Disney and a young actor playing Donald Duck, Soprano Grace Moore (One Night of Love, The King Steps Out) stormed about the studio until the duck's part was eliminated. Squealed she: "I will not sing with livestock...
...understanding but a week old, yesterday's news brings report of a disagreement already existing between Great Britain and the United States as to what the parity should be between the dollar and the pound, for, as might be expected, the English bankers and economists have no especial love for the figure of $4.87 to the pound, the rate which played havoc with their trade during the twenties...