Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich, the Adairs are genteel but poor, and Mr. Walter Connolly is very poor. Everyone is in love throughout the play, but with different persons, and Miss Gaynor, the only communicative lover, is full of romantic mendacity, and cannot be relied upon...
...remember distinctly a certain day last year when I was at prep. school. It suddenly occurred to me that I was going to love Harvard--for I would no longer hear at every hour the bone-shivering vibrations and thunder of a certain bell. Alas, my second morning here I was most rudely disillusioned...
...Love" and other local color books we get a good picture of that eccentric zealot, the assistant managerial or plain managerial candidate. He is content, especially if he is a kudos-seeking Freshman, to forego his "inner check" and become perhaps even weird in his sense of the power and the glory of the H.A.A. So the antics of one of these flunkies in trying to bar Mr. Bingham from penetrating the Soldiers Field barricade to watch his own Freshman football team surprises us not. But too much discipline is a dangerous thing...
What little action and plot there is in "Biography" is concentrated on Marion Froude. When we first see her, she is waiting for something to happen; it does. She is asked by her first love, Leander, to paint his portrait; a young editor asks her to write her biography for a sensational weekly, for she is a famous personality whose charm exceeds her ability as an artist,--the public has heard that she is promiscuous. Leander, "Bunny" to Marion, hears that Marion has agreed to write the story of her life, all of it. I say no more of plot...
...been a general, and as a general might not have felt the private's horror for the carnality of conflict, but he was also a diplomat, and a stiff necked one, and thus privy to the disadvantages of negotiating a loser's peace. And even if his post war love of peace was the facile reaction of a spanked child, a whole Hindenburg would still know how to count armies, and that small armies cannot throw mud at big armies without a disastrous fight. But this much at least can be said: IIorr von Hindenburg has disintegrated sadly...