Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Love & Nothing...
...wish to ask omniscient TIME a queson arising from the fact that tennis is international, I, provincial. This summer, Ripley's Believe-It-Or-Not feature stated that the tennis ero score "love" originated as an Anglicized pronunciation of the French words l'oeuf, meaning egg. Do non-English speaking tennists call he zero score by the English word "love," or by their native words for: 1) love...
...down and produced his last opera, lolanthe, a little idyll about a princess of Naples who did not know she was blind because she had been so from birth. Cured by Ibn Hakia, who strokes the long white beard appropriate to a Moorish sage, she marries the noble whose love made her cure possible. Tchaikovsky speedily became engrossed in this wistful idyll, achieved a brightly lyrical score rare among his mature works...
...Some readers may think the book a queer selection for these days, but many may find in its stilted, sampler-like pattern an old-fashioned charm. Allison was many years younger than Hamish, her stalwart, fiery-souled preacher-husband. It had never occurred to her to doubt that she loved him: she had several children to prove it, and in Scotland in those times (early 19th Century) speculation about "love'' was not encouraged. But the hard winter trip to their new home discouraged her, and when they were settled in the little Highland fishing village...
...hard, as complicated, as any city folks' ; the same things happened to them, with less dis guise. Cean was the first to get married; she went only a few miles away, to Lonzo's cabin. It was a happy marriage, but they never once said they loved each other. To Lonzo that would have been like blasphemy, and Cean was too shy. Most of their many children lived. Once, when Lonzo was away on his annual trip to the coast, a panther got into the cabin just after Cean had given birth...