Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...produced a general fog of intoxication. Mrs. Reynolds, demonstrating that she could "drink just like a man," got drunk. Her husband grew moody as the evening progressed. He seemed at odds with his wife. About midnight Mrs. Reynolds threw her arms around young Walker, exclaiming: "Smith doesn't love me any more." When her husband heard about it, he gloomily remarked: "Ab, I don't blame you. I blame Libby. She's that kind of a girl. . . . I'm going to end it all. Here, you can have that." And Smith Reynolds tossed his pocketbook...
...arrive from New York and spread stories about Libby Holman, darling of Broadway. It was learned that she was a Jewess, that her father had changed his name from Holzman. She had married a queer backward youth six years her junior out of pity, she said, more than love. Was she after his $15,000,000 share of the Reynolds estate? Manhattan tabloids playing up her stage life and loves got back to Winston-Salem, stirred old Southern prejudices. In this atmosphere of moral distrust and sectional suspicion Sheriff Scott procured his murder indictments while Libby Holman's friends...
...expressions of frozen agony, like figures in a waxworks they shuffle woodenly about on Lugosi's horrid errands. Meanwhile John Harron has found a priest, Joseph Cawthorn, who knows about Haitian voodoo worship. Together they find the fabulous castle. They save Madge Bellamy, vanquish evil by the power of love, horse sense and blackjacks...
...answers the Baroness' charges by saying he got it at an address which happens to be that of her lover. He gets the maid drunk on a party financed by the cook's life-savings. Next morning the maid, unrepentant, tells her husband: "Why didn't you show me love was like that?" John Gilbert keeps all the balls of his intrigues in the air at once, climaxing villainy with villainy. He has persuaded the maid to run away with him, when she discovers his blackmail enterprises. He beats her up. Finally, by virtue of a unanimous convulsion of outrage...
...golden twilight in which "night was rising like a tawny smoke." Presently the evening becomes less calm. At the airport, Rivière, "who was responsible for the entire service," waits anxiously for Fabien and two other mail planes to arrive. Rivière's aim is to "love the men under your orders but do not let them know it." Cold hostility for the minor inefficiencies that, in a flying service, are the likeliest causes of catastrophe, makes him appallingly but mercifully severe. While Riviere waits, two of the planes arrive. Fabien's young wife comes...