Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program had attracted everyone: the Prelude to Parsifal and the Good Friday Music, then the great Ninth Symphony. It was Toscanini's idea of "the perfect program." Wagner, in his last, leisurely opera worked with such themes as idealistic love, faith through suffering, purification, redemption. He varied them, interchanged them so masterfully, so melodiously that a certain haloed authenticity has become attached to his muddled allegory of the Grail-keepers...
...Rickard's saloon at Nome, Alaska. Original members include Rickard, Hoggatt, U. S. Senator Key Pittmann of Nevada, Novelist Rex Beach, Capone Attorney Albert Fink. Some qualifications for Ornery Club membership: wearing "good luck" galluses; finger-jabbing people in the chest while conversing; messing in the kitchen; carrying love charms; wearing No. 17 celluloid collars on No. 15 neckbands; general orneriness. Prominent in an alleged membership of 400,000 are Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr.; of California, Speaker John Nance Garner, Senator Huey Pierce Long of Louisiana, the entire Anti-Saloon League...
...another temple boy. In the first town they come to they hear a revolutionary orator recruiting volunteers. Ko-sen is much impressed by the new ideas of liberation from traditional religion, from foreign influence. Fah-li takes all this oratory with a grain of salt, but his love for Ko-sen leads him to volunteer along with...
...chapters long, this book will not appear before 1934. Sons, a sequel to The Good Earth, is being serialized in Hearst's Cosmopolitan. Mrs. Buck's editors describe her as "overwhelmed by the tremendous furor her works have caused." But Mrs. Buck is sturdy, composed. She has watched Chinese love, starve, kill, die. She knows that "in China interest centres about the work produced and not about the person who produces...
...Robby (Adolph Wohlbrueck), pulls the lever. You are aware that presently Jim will fall. When he does, Marina marries him out of sympathy. Robby takes Jim's place in the "Salto Mortale" and Jim takes Robby's job with the lever. When Marina and Robby fall in love, it complicates the act. Swinging on their high platform, they are sure that Jim, suspecting that he has lost his wife as well as his job, will one night forget to pull the lever. Presently he does forget...