Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still on the scene, wrapping their tentacles around Parisian real estate; and the sensitive liberal, Gurau, and his rationalized surrender to the corruption of the oil cartel. The two most interesting figures, however, are the young students, Jallez and Jerphanion, the one attempting to recapture the purity of his love for Helene Sigeau, and the other just emerging from the crises of adolescence and still struggling in the tolls of youthful lust. Both of them are seeking, amid the disillusionment of the decade before the war, some rock on which to build their lives. There are countless other characters...
...said they also make peach, and orange and lemon flavoring from little molecules. Then he made me come back to his rooms and pack, but I have so much time that I am writing this letter and wish I could have gone into the chemical laboratory. Love, Osear...
...Tucker's active life-time spanned the roaring decades of the old West: his life was so packed with Indian fights, shootings and hangings of horse thieves that his simple, sober account of a few of them is absolutely convincing. Running through it is the evidence of a genuine love of nature that is the opposite of sentimental: the few blunt words dropped here and there to describe a purple butte or a lush valley are almost touching, naively juxtaposed as they are to accounts of gory Indian fights and saloon shootings...
Charles, younger son of a conservative English parson, fell in love with the German governess, Hedwig. When his father tried to break up the affair they eloped, were caught and brought back before the marriage was legalized. Hedwig, sent home to her mother in Germany, was married off to an army officer in time to give her baby a name. Innocent Charles never even suspected he was a father. Then the War came. John, the elder brother, was an officer in France. One of his jobs was catching and condemning a German spy, who turned out to be Hedwig...
...report came that Hedwig was dead and Klaus had disappeared, John thought that was the end. But when Klaus turned up in England as a stowaway John found him again, managed to adopt him, gradually weaned him from the horrors that had cost him his memory. Klaus fell in love with an English girl, was beginning to settle down when a letter came from Germany, from a girl who had saved his life and mothered him for months when he was out of his head. Klaus said good-by to his uncle, his sweetheart and England, and went back...