Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time . . . and was desirous to wash herself. . . . So she said to her maids: Bring me oil and washing balls, and shut the doors of the orchard. . . . When the maids were gone forth the two elders arose, and ran to her, and said: . . . Nobody seeth us and we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. But if thou wilt not, we will bear witness against thee, that a young man was with thee. . . . Susanna said: ... It is better for me to fall into your hands without doing it, than to sin in the sight...
...junkmen love a big scrapping job. After the Washington Naval Conference Henry A. Hitner's Sons Co., potent Philadelphia dealers, had tied up at their waterfront yard awaiting the torch three battleships, 26 submarines and destroyers, 55,000 tons of auxiliary vessels. Ingenious British junkmen picked the best ships of the German navy off the floor of Scapa Flow, sliced them into $13,000,000 worth of scrap. An abandoned railroad is always a juicy plum. A big deal that junkmen missed was the sale of 199 World War vessels to Henry Ford for $1,600,000. He towed...
...Komroff, changing the names of his protagonists to Oliver Benson and Jane Holden, follows closely the history of the case, but takes it further, deeper than Editor Bennett did. Jane, like many a storybook harlot, was pathological only in having a heart of gold. She gave Benson her true love. For a while he liked it. Unfortunately he was a black-hearted villain, with ambitions toward a respectable marriage. Since Jane threatened to be an embarrassing liability he decided to liquidate her. Benson was quickly arrested and the affair would have gone hard with him had not District Attorney Welden...
...interview with decadent-looking Tallulah Bankhead (daughter of Alabama's onetime Representative William Brockman Bankhead). written by one Gladys Hall. Reported Miss Hall: "I am told that Tallul' is never decently hypocritical. . . . She reveals All- and more than all. . . . She gives to all functions of living and loving, of body and soul, their round Rabelaisian, biological names. ... It is said that she speaks of her love affairs with equal frankness. She has a romantic interlude and afterwards, discusses it with lurid details. It matters not whether the recent recipient of her favors happens to be among those present...
...Ripening is one of the neatest and best. Philippe and Vinca have spent many a comradely summer in the seaside cottage rented jointly by their families. But this year adolescence has made their old comradeship a little tense. Very fond of each other, they are ashamed of the word "love," take it mutually for granted that some day. . . . But the future gets a forced growth when Philippe meets a ripe lady who has a conveniently neighboring villa. She casts a greedily speculative eye on Philippe's 16-year-old bronzed body. When he brings her flowers, she does...