Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would fit Adolf Hitler, it stuck. Perhaps his profile (with an army hat on, for he has little forehead and no hair) accounts for it, perhaps pressagentry. Whatever the reason, he is the gentlest Strong Man ever to make thrones totter. An orphan at nine, he grew up to love painting, history, philosophy, went to Cracow to study them. On the side he acted beautifully in amateur theatricals. He distinguished himself as an athlete, but was no bonecrusher; fenced gracefully, played keen tennis, rode like an Arab, and was the only one at the University who could swim Jagellonia Lake...
Last year a morose Czech tunesmith named Jaromir Vejvoda wrote a bouncing little tune and called it Skoda Isky ("No more love"). Popular among polka-dancing Bohemians and Moravians, Vejvoda's bit of tinkle-tonkle was soon recorded by an old-fashioned Czech beer-garden band, and in disc form reached the U. S. Because of the record's quaint, beery boopishness, Victor (its U. S. distributor) renamed it the Beer Barrel Polka. The Beer Barrel Polka record not only caught on, it spouted continuously and deliriously from slot machines in every skating rink, juke joint and hamburger stand...
...Marsh became Winston Churchill's secretary at the Colonial Office. For Marsh it was love at first sight which he never got over. Soon Winston had Lion Hunter Marsh lion-hunting in Africa, although he would not trust Marsh with a gun until a wounded rhinoceros charged him (Churchill had shot it while it was sleeping). For days they traveled through the tropical vegetation where Lady Cromer's maid had once asked: "How long, my Lady, must we tarry in this shrubbery?" At Khartoum, Churchill's valet died. Writes Marsh: "I was grateful to him [Churchill] for his confidence...
...swim faster than a ship can travel, to break through brick walls and leap skyscrapers. To keep his identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is a bespectacled cub reporter named Clark Kent. The pretty female reporter is in love with Clark Kent and the beautiful foreign princess is in love with Superman. How to satisfy them both is a problem for Superman's creators...
Columnist Skolsky has a wife smaller than he is, and a love for Hollywood because it is the only place he has ever gained weight...