Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...course of feeding doughnuts to cab horses and leading a "back to nature" movement along the main stem, he falls in love with a female reporter (Jean Arthur) who stars him in her gossip column for the local yellow press. Disillusioned at discovering this, he takes a gallant fling at the modern social structure by giving his money to the deserving poor. At this point relatives step in with a motion to ship him off to an insane asylum. In the uproarious sanity trial which follows he is accused of everything from abnormal mental depression to "pixylation" (state of being...
...rugged about a sailor's wooden Virgin-doll, so is there a robust tang in this picture's sentiment, wherein Shirley weeps over just such a doll because Captain January gave it to her and she has been taken away from him. And the songs, "The Right Somebody to Love," "The Early Bird," and especially "At the Codfish Ball," are lilting gaiety
Lastly arise the "Gimme Groups" such as the American Legion, Van Zandt's "Veterans of Foreign Wars" and the publicity seeking "D. A. R." Mouth-filling, ear-catching, windy phrases reeking with "patriotism", "Americanism", "loyalty", "love of your country" and the rest; meaning nothing, with no single breath of sincerity in them, with but one thought in mind and that material gain, either in the medium of cash or power through votes, are the tricks of the trade to these groups. The breath of their life is to support dollar patriots and to receive in return the support...
...Jungle English'' is what Crusader Herbert calls the tangled verbiage so dear to polysyllabic politicians, patriots, businessmen. Many of his horrible examples are taken from the venerable London Times. He translates into Jungle English a passage from the Anglican Catechism ("My duty towards my Neighbour is to love him as myself, and to do to all men, as I would they should do unto me:"), thus: "In connection with my co-citizens a general standard of mutual goodwill and reciprocal non-aggression is obviously incumbent upon me; but a comprehensive delimitation of my obligations might be grouped under...
Marius and Andrew meet but find each other uninteresting. Saul's catalytic presence throws everyone into frenzied activity. The disciples intrigue more furiously than ever; Simon looks paler every day; Andrew sits up till all hours writing "a really sincere" play. Saul falls in love with Lilly but casts her out when he finds what she is up to. The dying Marius, in a last effort to get away from his disciples and his own failure, gets Saul to promise he will take him to Africa. Andrew, unable to write a sincere play without being dull, drowns himself...