Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...executed because his very Irish owner (Sara Allgood of The Plough and the Stars) is unable to pay his long-overdue license fee. This innocent situation causes the town provost's political career to be ruined, for his decision to execute un licensed Patsy arouses the dog-loving electorate, not to hiss, but to bark him out of office. There are also two divorce cases and a love affair attributable to Patsy before the final curtain falls...
Strangest of U. S. social experiments, these communist groups are now vaguely remembered as something between a co-operative and a free-love colony. Most suc cessful, most notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics." The subject of many a historical sidelight, Oneida Community last week filled the background of an auto biography written by one of its "eugenic" descendants, whose father, John Humphrey Noyes, founded and led the Community for more than 30 years in the light of "scientific propagation and true Christian Communism...
When John Keats died of consumption in Italy (1821) at the age of 26, he left two girls behind him. Both were named Fanny. One was his orphan sister, the other was Fanny Brawne, to whom he was engaged. Keats's letters to Fanny Brawne are classics in love-letter literature; hers to him were buried with him. In spite of such kind words as Amy Lowell's (John Keats}, Fanny Brawne has generally figured in Keats's story as a light-headed minx who failed to appreciate him. Last week 31 letters of Fanny Brawne...
...When a village girl is caught in the act of love, her mother spends everything they have on a feast for the local big men, hoping that they will then commute her daughter's sentence from death to banishment. They do; the daughter goes off to starve while her penniless mother stays home...
There is a sensuousness about the picture which lends it charm. The Swiss are a people of simple pleasures; they love their mountains and their fastivals. Fat cattle roam the valleys, and goats clamber on the rocks. But they are also a people divided by racial hates. From these two contrasts the plot develops, in the conflict between two hostile French and German villages. A dog is killed, and a woman kidnapped in retaliation. The picture ends with one of the villages in flames, and the two levers in their midst...