Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last evening in Hotel Continental. It's tragic to see old couples come back to spend the last night in the rooms where they honeymooned, but Miss Shannon dispels such somber thoughts. Enticing a man of mystery into the room by a feint of suicide, Peggy falls dearly in love with the young embezzler, who has just returned from five years in the big house. Even though her duty to the gang is to see where he has hidden the loot which he comes to take away the night before the hotel closes its door to the public, she falls...
Anyway, who could smother a great wave of tenderness at the sight of blood on the dress of any comely girl? The final reform of the pair, result of mutual love, drives home the fact that, after all, none of us are bad, but just "poor blundering humans...
...that Buster is not clicking in perfect form, for he plainly strains, himself to protect Polly Moran from falling in love with one of those fickle gigolos. After smashing of a great deal of crockery over sundry heads, which always is amusing to see, even though it may be a sign of a sadistic nature, love is finally frustrated, and the audience awaits the Micky Mouse...
Shakespeare was the first of the poets to turn his footsteps in imagination to the stones of Venice. After him a long procession follows, Wordsworth, Shelley, Byron, Browning. One may almost say that the best of the English poets are those who loved Venice best. The delight of Shelley in it was that of Ariel for his island, and Byron's love was not one but several. For those who can go and see, the record of their attachment is alive in Venice today. For those who cannot, Mr. Hersey will lecture on "Venice and the English Poets," illustrated...
...very poor pipe for four and six which he lost on the boat coming home. But he had learned what make the English a great, comfortable, contented, conservative nation. Their love of things, their rare ability to love old wines, and high game, and fine linens, and burnished silver, and blended tobacco, and grained woods. Their ability to enjoy and worship the things the Lord has provided in His infinite wisdom which seem small and trivial and unimportant, but which are also great, and necessary and almost terrible in their absence...