Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ending the Solemn Requiem Mass, Alexander Cardinal Kakowski, Archbishop of Warsaw, faced the nave, cried: "We herewith take a solemn oath to love our motherland as only you, Marshal Pilsudski, loved...
Wisconsin, home of La Follettes and Progressivism had the week's most newsworthy Red trouble. A legislative committee which set out to hunt Reds at the University of Wisconsin had used up all its expense money on an investigation of free love among the faculty without so much as starting the Red-hunt. Last week the committee was waiting for a new appropriation when a group of undergraduate athletes and fraternity men became annoyed at charges of campus radicalism. Breaking up a meeting of the pinko League for Industrial Democracy one warm, moonlight night, they grabbed the leaders, dragged...
...Empress, Catherine was a hardworking success. She got up at dawn, worked 15 hours a day. She was no voluptuous debauchee: "her love-life resembled that of an important business man; it was simple, very sentimental, and rather pathetic." Catherine found her liberal-philosophizing theories sharply modified by the experience of ruling Russia. When Philosopher Diderot reproached her for her change of heart, she replied: "You philosophers are fortunate people. You write on patient paper-I, poor empress, am forced to write upon the ticklish skin of human beings." Darkest blot on her scutcheon was the murder of Ivan...
...Russian frontiers pushed far into the west. But there came a day, when Catherine was 62, when she refused to dismiss her current lover (40 years younger than she) at Potemkin's bidding. He took himself off, disgruntled, and five years later Catherine, after a last night of love, followed...
Johnny now has plenty to think about. The little old man haunts his days, Trelia his nights. As the old man's attitude grows more threatening, the girl becomes friendlier. But when Johnny sees that she cannot return his love, he says good-by to her. The old man, out of sheer fiendishness, kills an inoffensive Italian window-washer and an Irish bartender, then has Johnny arrested for murder. Because the old man swears he was an eyewitness and Johnny's alibi is weak, things look black for him. But with Johnny in deadly peril, Trelia...