Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hitler v. Hoare. On & on rumbled the two-hour Proclamation, with that Hitler verbosity which Germans love and scarcely any other people can endure. Only twice, however, did the whole Congress leap to its 2,000,000 feet with delirious roars and hochs: 1) when the Jews were told off; and 2) when Der Führer made a bold bid for the return to Germany of colonies seized from her by the Allies after...
Finally he succumbs to the infatuated, spoiled, neurotic and enchanting Irene who realizes that he loves her after he has cured one of her fits by sticking her, dressed, into a cold shower, on the ground that if he did not love her he could not have been so angry. Made out of material as old as show business and as tricky as cobwebs, My Man Godfrey emerges with that evasive quality that is not skillful playing, writing or direction, but something that mysteriously adds itself to these things, and makes a tip-top picture...
...recognize worry when it sneaks into the consciousness disguised as deep feelings, jealousy or thought. It also contains little stories grained into the theoretical material: Tucker Ames worried until he could not get ahead because his daughter was in the hospital, his business failing, and his wife in love with another man; Phyllis Foster worried over injustice; Gabriel Gadbury worried over his wife's extravagance; Robert E. Lee refused to worry over what history would say of his surrender; Martin Luther chose to be true to himself when "faced with one of the greatest decisions in history...
...made sick by fear." Confronted by situations that we do not know how to face, or do not want to face, our concepts of the kind of action possible for us are limited by patterns of thought formed in childhood by fears of consequence or opinion, by a morbid love for our own unhappiness, by distorted evaluations of the situation based on ingrown prejudice rather than fact. We thereupon begin to worry and "the moment a man begins to worry he imperils his mind." The symptoms are plain. "There is no isolation so poignant as that which worry brings...
...Midsummer Night Madness he wrote a series of subtle, melodious, highly-polished stories that pictured the disorder of civil war-wild chases across country, confused fighting, chance love affairs between battles-set against serene Irish landscapes beautifully described. In A Nest of Simple Folk he wrote an historical novel that covered the period from 1854 to the Easter rebellion of 1916; in Countess Markievicz he turned his cadenced prose to a biography of a picturesque Dublin aristocrat who joined the rebels, was sentenced to death, and saluted in one of Yeats' loveliest poems...