Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dragged unconscious, half frozen, from a snow heap half a mile from her home. Electric wires were dead. . . . Telephone wires were useless. Taxicabs and private automobiles stayed in their garages or stuck in the snow. . . . For the better part of 24 hr. no help could be had, for love or money, in case of fire or serious illness...
...Germans love to walk for walking's sake. But they have never grown enthusiastic over walking for golf's sake. All Germany has only 42 golf clubs, against some 2,000 clubs and courses in England and Scotland and 5,600 in the U. S. Last week, as much to make jobs as anything else, the Nazi high command prepared to foist golf on the German people. It ordered the exclusive clubs to lower their membership fee to two marks for adults, one mark for minors. It prepared to dot Germany with public courses, lower the cost...
...than any other monarch in all Europe. He had two sons and five grandsons, hardy scions of Napoleon's General Bernadotte. In reserve to bulwark his line, he had three brothers. But these princes seemed to have a family failing for marrying commoners. Brother Oscar went first, for love of a lady-in-waiting, after renouncing his right of succession. His son Folke went next, for Estelle of the U. S. roofing Manvilles. Last year romance struck nearer home when Lennart, the King's second son's only son, for love of a pretty Swedish debutante, became...
...There are moments of embarrassed silence around the ducal dinner table as Prince Sirki's behaviour grows increasingly enigmatic. The most painful arrives when the Duke has to reveal the true identity of his guest. This is after the Prince has made it clear that he is in love with chubby Grazia (Evelyn Venable), the dreamy fiancee of young Corrado de Catolica. When he becomes a shadow again at the end of three days, Prince Sirki takes Grazia with him, wrapped in his cloak. The impossibility of assaying the philosophic content, if any, of the play by Alberto Casella...
Dominating all the other motifs, industry, politics, crime, letters, society, are the themes of pure love, which are orchestrated in the story of Jallez' struggles; and those of lust, culminating in the lyrical description of Jerphanion's tortured search for physical love in the streets of Paris, "kingdom of the carnal Eros." Romains is equally sympathetic and equally successful in his treatment of either phase...