Word: loves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Assassin Grynszpan, further grilled by detectives of the French Surete Generate last week in efforts to find out whether he had accomplices, sobbed over & over: "My motive was love of the Jewish people!" (see below...
Harry Wolfe and his brother Robert ("Old Bob") bought the venerable Journal in 1902. (One story is that Bob fell in love with the Journal because it defended him when somebody tried to blackmail him.) Bob Wolfe was a huge bear of a man, forceful, shrewd, hard-drinking, hard-cussing. He served a penitentiary term for shooting a man who insulted a lady he was escorting, personally broke into every boathouse on Buckeye Lake to aid rescue work during the 1913 flood, used to spout memorized poetry by the yard. He died...
...that in Philadelphia a hospital refused money raised by a benefit performance; in Newport, R. I., Othello was billed as "A Series of Moral Dialogues" and the playhouse dubbed "A Histrionic Academy." A big factor in making an honest woman of the theatre was George Washington's great love...
Fired from Manhattan's Hotel Astor for breaking dishes and from the Hotel McAlpin for daydreaming over an actress to whom he wrote "I think I love you," Bemelmans used his uncle's last letter of introduction to get a busboy job in the Hotel "Splendide...
This social mess has a particularly un fortunate effect on love: it results in what Spenlove-McFee calls another Gresham's law,* in which good love, i. e., based on mutual class interests, hasn't got a chance. Through Spenlove, a lower middle-class student in "the natural history of the well-to-do," Author McFee has a direct mouthpiece for his ironic reflections on the state of the U. S. rich (whose uneasiness, one gathers, serves them right...