Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present from the past, discussed the new Cabinet and the current Japanese crisis in terms of the 31-year-old Emperor's career, recalled that he has always been in his quiet way a precedent smasher and that the first major precedent he smashed was to marry for love outside the strict circle of Japan's Five Eligible Families...
...characters begins to get dull, as in Vicki Baum's kaleidoscopic Grand Hotel. Mae Clarke is a square-shooting chorus girl who talks like a Girl Scout. She pities a young patron (Lew Ayres) who is the scion of a famed murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman...
...John Kuzon, 41, confessed to striking his wife with a hammer after she had accused him of killing her pet lamb. "Later I went to the basement to sleep," he said, "and she crawled over to me and put her head on my chest and said, 'O. daddy, love me.' I told her to get away." John Kuzon then went out and dug a five foot grave in his hen coop. "I went back to the house and got my wife. She wanted to know where I was taking her. I told her I was going to carry...
...life at Enkendal is no longer possible without him: he returns. In the tower over the library are her rooms. There, by means of a secret stairway, Alison climbs night after night. Their love has long been consummated when von Norwitz returns from the war, a hopeless invalid...
Julie tries to reconcile respect for her husband with her love for Alison, but without avail. Soon von Norwitz suspects her affair: once convinced that she has been unfaithful, he resigns his will to live. On his deathbed he consigns the lovers to each other. But the van Leydens have no such liberal ideas. Scandalized, outraged when they discover Julie's behavior, their confusion is twice confounded when she runs off to marry Alison. He has rubbed the lamp of his philosophy and like a lovely genie she must answer its peremptory call...