Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they were obsessed by their hatred of each other. But they rarely met. practically never spoke. Their paths parted briefly when Sharpies went up to Oxford and Wace into business. Sharpies turned up again just in time to steal Wace's sweetheart from under his nose, not for love of her but hate of him. That finished Wace's happiness: he took to drink, married a grateful prostitute. In middle age, both separated from their wives and each with a grown-up child, the enemies were settled in London. Sharpies began to dog Wace's trail again...
...Moscow but is happy to get home again. THE LUCK OF THE BODKINS-P. G. Wodehouse-Little, Brown ($2). Steward Peasemarch takes over while Valet Jeeves has a well-earned vacation. DUST OVER THE RUINS-Helen Ashton -Macmillan ($2.50). How to make a dull winter into something worse, or love in an archeological camp, with a vampish wife setting an old man, a boy and her surly husband on their respective ears. JOURNEY INTO FREEDOM-Klaus Mann -Knopf ($2.50). Story of a German girl who leaves her lover and the safety of exile to go back to martyrdom in Nazi...
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...small Tsushima Island, Japan. Jiro Tanaka, 21, fell in love with Sumi Chan, 19, a prostitute. Protesting that he could not afford to patronize the "restaurant" where she worked, he took her away and secreted her for a month, under the floor of the bicycle shop where he worked. Summoned to appear for a military examination at his native village, Toyomizu, 75 miles away, and still in love and poor, Tanaka bought a steamship ticket home, packed his girl in a box and took the box aboard. The box was delivered to a lodging house in Hakata, made odd little...
There is a bit of Rosicrucian metaphysics in this picture, but love, not it, is the transforming force...