Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What public opinion there is in Poland is undoubtedly strongly anti-German and pro-French. No love has ever been lost between Pole and Teuton, who have fought no less than 60 wars in the last 1,000 years. The student demonstrations could have been, and probably were, genuine outpourings of indignation. But suspicious correspondents had their own ideas of why they were not quickly and effectively suppressed. They suspected that Colonel Beck, now entertaining the Foreign Minister of one of the axis powers, looked not unfavorably upon riots against the other power in the hope that they might persuade...
...Psychiatrist Fred Temple Burling of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. told of a wealthy young woman who had "an extravagant love" for the tremendous department store. She insisted on working for the store, no matter how small the job, even though she might have had positions with more social prestige. Dr. Burling soon discovered that the girl was deeply attached to her father, and that "she had personified the organization and transferred much of her fixation on her father to it." The case "may sound preposterous," concluded Dr. Burling, "but it is . . . an attitude I find pretty frequently...
...deal would go through were it not for the school's lovable principal, Timothy Hulme. Uncle Tim is a procrastinator from way back, but he can tell fascism from fooling. He has put off marrying so long that when he finally falls in love, it is with a girl who might be his daughter; he delays proposing to her so long that she is wooed and married by his nephew before he has even heaved a deep sigh. But the minute Mr. Wheaton's poisoned sugarplum comes along, Uncle Tim gets his back up. He succeeds in keeping...
Last fortnight Negley Farson did at last crack up-but only fictitiously, in a semi-autobiographical novel about a famous U. S. newspaperman who ends up drinking himself to death in a backwoods cabin in British Columbia. An awkwardly constructed, Lost Generation novel, teeming with love affairs, ineffective cures for alcoholism, neurotic athleticism, it will be read for its confessional thrills. But it will arouse little sympathy, despite the alibi that its drunken hero is an idealist "still searching for the impossible in love, still clinging to many of his childhood ecstasies and still uncalloused...
...would have to go somewhere immediately and dry his shoes; he had heard rumors of Stillman's newly-adopted exclusiveness. But suddenly Vag completely for-got about wet shoes and infirmaries for there directly in front of him was a gigantic board, studded with pictures of his secret love is Hepburn, Vag mooned and sighed and fell into a cataleptic trance...