Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that her cook has dropped the aspic, learns that her husband has an incurably bad heart. Some of her guests never do arrive. The Ferncliffes, "those miserable cockneys," have their secretary telephone to say they have left town. Larry Renault, the actor, harassed by poverty, conceit and a futile love affair with Paula Jordan, has committed suicide in his hotel room...
...Love and Babies (by Herbert P. Mc-Cormack, produced by Morris Green and Frank McCoy) is a domestically salacious trifle purporting to show how husbands and wives talk about procreation. Plot: a wife wants a baby, her husband does not. To soften him the wife invites as guests a couple who have a baby. The childless husband takes an interest but keeps his attitude. Meanwhile the father-husband fears his child has stolen his wife's love, receives an invitation from the childless wife to father her baby. He agrees, then reneges because he wants the other husband...
...more to come. In Soldier Field the Chicago Tribune staged its fourth annual Chicagoland Music Festival, a nocturnal orgy of community singing and bandplaying, polished off with a prodigious display of fireworks. Though rival newspapers enthusiastically ignored the festival, it was a thumping spectacle such as visitors at fairs love to see. Some 85,000 spectators vigorously applauded as Bandmaster Arthur Pryor directed massed bands through favorite Sousa marches. They were awed by a rendition of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture eked out by booming cannon and skirling fireworks to represent the burning of Moscow, delighted by a flaming...
Tuberculous son of a wealthy English parson, Cecil Rhodes went to South Africa at 16 in search of health. Three years later he went home, to Oxford, but his lungs sent him back again. Later he used to say that he left England not so much for love of adventure or on account of his health, as "because he could no longer stand the eternal cold mutton." Diamonds had just been discovered at Kimberley (1870). Rhodes got in on the ground floor, was soon making ?100 a week. At 27 he founded de Beers Mining Co., soon had control...
...College. In those dim Victorian undergraduate days she was the most popular member of a daringly co-educational experiment. And after her four bright college years an admiring faculty invited her to join them as teacher of grammar. Ella took her job very seriously, even in off-hours. Then love came to Ella; his name was Delbert. But a kitteny young cousin snatched Delbert away by seducing him. Ella put away her wedding dress and stood by for further trouble. It came: Death took Delbert and his kittenish wife, leaving Ella with her rival's baby. She called...