Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...love to be a newspaper man because I love the classics and I love good literature...
...decide to auction off their daughters for $25,000 each. Three of the daughters meet with mysterious misfortunes. The fourth and most beautiful, Lien Wha, persuades a rich Chinese gambler that she is worth the whole $100,000. This is most sad for brave Lien Wha; she is in love with a handsome young Chinese named Tom Lee. It is giving away no secret to explain that Tommy Lee turns out to be a Chinese prince; and that the gambler is a criminal called The Sea Crab who, also concerned with patriotic problems, hopes to prevent the $100,000 from...
...group of scientists carrying out investigations in a scientific way, but merely by a group of faddists, eager to put a few startling and unreliable figures before a depression struck people," said E. S. Mason, associate professor of Economics, in an interview yesterday. "It shows what a love of fads the people of the United States have, but you can't blame anyone for turning to any new panacea, however dubious, in a depression of this sort...
...question: Is a hard world harder for women than for men? ¶Narrator of the first story' is Fanny, a shy, embittered woman whose career (she is a writer) is overshadowed by the much flashier success of an old girlhood friend, Victoria., who uses herself as material for love-affairs, her affairs as material for her best-selling books. Victoria is gross, cynical, shrewd; somehow her daughter turns out to be the opposite. She soon sees through her mother, takes her affection to Fanny. When the daughter marries a nice young man, Victoria's Bohemian creed is horrified...
...used on his millworkers. Abby-Delight's one taste of freedom was a year at Abbot's Female Academy at Andover. Just when domestic tension was getting too much for her along came rich, lavish Stephen Blanchard, full of tales of the prodigal West, fell in love with her and carried her off with him. In Galena, Ill., then a much livelier town than Chicago, Abby-Delight bore her children, cautiously made friends, was gradually glad to become acclimatized. In the boom years of expansion Stephen prospered exceedingly. Then came the Civil War, break-up of friendships...