Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French women between 16 and 50 were the targets on whom La Revue de la Femme trained a Christmas "love formula" painstakingly compiled from questionnaires filled out by members of the Government, the French Academy, the Paris Bar and other fonts of wisdom about women...
...must not be supposed from these two incidents that Rasputin and the Empress consists entirely of gore and gunpowder. It starts as a pedestrian historical romance, documented with occasional newsreel shots. The Tsarina pats her children on the head. Chegodieff makes love to a lady in waiting (Diana Wynyard). Rasputin endears himself to his betters by curing the ailing Tsarevitch with hypnotism. He acquires control of the government by conspiring with the head of the secret police, loses favor by trying to paddile into the bedroom of an adolescent princess...
...railroad domination. Its handbills argue: "Guaranteed Lowest Prices-It is the independent bus company that through active competition maintains the low cost of transportation for the traveling public." Such railroads as Great Northern. Pennsylvania, Southern Pacific have substantial commitments in big Greyhound lines. And all the railroads would dearly love to see bus fares upped to a level more in line with their own fares...
...Horace Vizetelly announced he had granted official recognition in his Standard Dictionary to the initial-composed "protogram" and the telescope word, both popular in Russia. A protogram: NEP (New Economic Policy). A telescope word: Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.). Commented Dr. Vizetelly: "The newly-liberated Russian people have the same love for big words which distinguishes all civilizations in the formative state. They give institutions magniloquent titles, then find it is too much trouble to pronounce them...
...Anatole France would have done them better, many a Cabellian would have done them worse. In adapting the Tristan legend to his scheme, Author Erskine has of course ousted Tristan from the hero's place, made minor Palamede the heroic figure. Palamede was a Saracen who fell in love with the ideas of chivalry as related to him by one of his father's Christian slaves. The bit about adoring women particularly appealed to Palamede. He deviled his father for permission to travel among the Franks, find an object of adoration. His philosophical father intimated his errand...