Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual who by inaction or opposition slows up honest, practical, far-seeing community effort-is the fellow who is holding back civilization and holding back the Constitution of the United States. . . . You are having opportunities to fall in love with and understand the great outdoors. Do not ever fall out with Nature and her wide-open breathing spaces...
...life Mary grasped at straws, and as her love affairs were tragedies of unfulfillment, so her ill-organized conspiracies and arid plots were the politics, not of passion, but of despair...
...Stefan Zweig's analysis, Mary's greatness lay in her passionate surrender of her throne when love overwhelmed her. But his accounts of conditions in Scotland give the impression that she surrendered for love what had already been lost by politics. Far more convincing than his analysis of her emotional development is his picture of Mary entering Scotland when it had already been lost to Catholicism, groping wildly for support in the first years of her reign, marrying Darnley in a confused effort to satisfy Elizabeth, turning from Darnley when she found that the marriage meant only greater...
Warrior-with-Gods, in "North is Black," fell in love with a rich white girl, was disgraced for cheating at cards. Taught by whites, he had thought cheating was part of the game. To unmask the girl's white lover, who also cheated, Warrior-with-Gods planned a fearful revenge. Waiting until the stakes were high and a large crowd was playing, he watched the game impassively, suddenly drew a knife and pinned the lover's hand to the table. An extra ace was under the impaled palm...
...England painter in New Orleans, engaged to an attractive heiress he did not love, tried to prevent his love for a French Quarter beauty from becoming serious, found that it had become overpoweringly serious when she left him in scorn...