Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Astonishing Reading." When Rufus Daniel Isaacs first saw India as a cabin boy it was because of an unsuccessful youthful love affair. When he next saw India as Viceroy it was because of a successful love affair. The second woman, Alice Edith Cohen, who became his first wife, persuaded him to leave a failing career as a stockbroker and study law. Colleagues rate him below his contemporaries Lord Birkenhead and Sir John Simon as a lawyer. They credit his industry (he got up at 4 a. m.), his wit and polish, his amazing memory for figures for the fact that...
...shot of the Columbus Circle speechmakers. Through its .Wide World syndicate the Times offered exclusive morning paper rights to the print, sold it to the tabloid Daily News for $30. Evening rights went to Hearst's Jour nal which five-columned it beneath the caption: "The Camera Sees Love. Drama. Crime, Tragedy and Probable Death...
...nosing for "Love, Drama, Crime" copy the gaudy Journal last fortnight outdistanced other papers of its type with a front-page series whooping up next month's trial of Torch-Singer Libby Holman for the murder of her husband Smith Reynolds, tobacco scion. The Journal sent its correspondent to Winston-Salem, N. C. to interview everyone in the case, accompanied his reports with elaborate picture layouts under such sympathetic headlines as: FACTS HELP LIBBY'S DEFENSE. PROSECUTOR LACKS LIBBY MOTIVE, CLAIM LIBBY 'EXONERATED' BY SECRET AUTOPSY...
...story shows Sally Eilers declining to sell liquor for the bootlegging hat-check overlord as she consents at his request to go to a playboy's party. Irritably chaste, she accepts the use of an empty apartment where the returning owner (Ben Lyon) finds her in bed. True love is instantaneous. Menaces appear in the persons of the hat-check overlord who "frames" her, and the scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake...
Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) was born into a carefully wealthy, sternly cultured family of Oslo, who insisted on his being a good student. With a scientific and mathematical bent. Fridtjof chose zoology as his specialty. That and his love of adventure led him into the Arctic. At 21 he made his first voyage, with the sealer Viking. Six years later he led an expedition across Greenland on skis. When he proposed to his wife he added a condition: "But I must take a trip to the North Pole." In the From, specially constructed to resist ice pressure...