Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...those who know their Runyon need not be told that the criminals are made to feel ludicrously uneasy by the State trooper, that the orphan proves invaluable in thwarting the bankers and bringing the course of true love to a satisfactory conclusion. As has already been demonstrated on the screen (Little Miss Marker, Lady for a Day), the more involved a Runyon character is written, the harder it is to act. Actor Harrington seems to interpret Marco not so much as a droll picaroon but as a bumbling slob. But as Mike, Actor Sweeney is a soft-spoken Runyon killer...
Married. Joyce Love Allen, 21, only daughter of Governor Oscar Kelly Allen of Louisiana, and Dr. Frederick J. Stare, 25, Rockefeller Institute Fellow; in the Executive Mansion, Baton Rouge...
...with circumspection and wit until his landlady's daughter proves a sufficient attraction to make him break his priestly vows. Occasional chapters, inserted between these two major developments, carry forward the stories of Gurau, the deputy, who breaks with his mistress, and Jallez, intellectual friend of Jerphanion, whose love affair with a married woman is discovered by her husband...
...singularly even and controlled individuals. They may be troubled or at peace, but they are not ravaged by the intellectual and emotional passions that lift the characters of Joyce, of Proust, Mann and Dostoevski to more than human stature. In revealing how the "private" activities of men-their moods, love affairs, desires, plans-are influenced by such remote social and political developments as strikes or the threat of war, Romains has made an impressive and original contribution to modern fiction. And in keeping the first volumes of his masterwork prosaic and detailed, it may well be that the Frenchman...
...love of politicians for the flag, the home, motherhood and other sanctified institutions has been a favorite theme of U. S. satirists since Lowell wrote The Biglow Papers. That this particular vein of fun has run thin became apparent last week with the publication of a ponderously humorous volume, patterned on Machiavelli's The Prince, purporting to bring to aspiring officeseekers the same quality of sagacious instruction, supported by instances drawn from practical politics, that the cynical Italian gave to the despots of his day. A tedious book, overlong, repetitious, The Politician contains a few hilarious examples of Fourth...