Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice. . . . Among the abundant fruits of salvation which we anticipate from your Congress and for which we pray, there is one hope of which we will make mention, the one which your session had particularly in view: It is our hope, namely, that from a more ardent love of our Lord in the august sacrament of the altar and from more frequent communion with him there may come a daily increase of devotion to missions and enterprise for the promotion of missionary activity. For it is from that very source that light is given our minds, ardor to our souls...
...Good Earth's theme is the love of the Chinese peasant for his land and his dependence upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter...
...then the hardened libertine fell in love-by his own count, for the 113th time. Natalya Goncharova's family was not nearly as good as Pushkin's; she had no dowry; she was 13 years younger than he; but she was a beauty. That was enough for Pushkin. After a long and arduous courtship, he married her. Natalya made him a decorative and submissive wife, presented him with several children. But she never returned his love, and though apparently she was technically faithful, her flirtatiousness nearly drove Pushkin wild. On her side, Natalya never understood or cared...
...Donkin, but Marbledown's new Headmaster was not, considered him an old-fashioned obstructionist nearly ready for the pruning knife. All unaware of his danger, Mr. Donkin carried on, up holding the tyrannical dictates of the Head in public, in private shaking his wiser head. When his lost love's daughters descended on him for an indefinite visit, Mr. Donkin's position was further complicated, for two of the girls were old and pretty enough to set adolescent boys on their ears; the third was a tomboy tare who always fell on good ground. All meant well...
ELEANOR or AQUITAINE-Melrich V. Rosenberg-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Routine but interesting first English biography of the 12th Century "Queen of the Troubadours and of the Courts of Love" whose political intrigues relieved her not only of royal husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, but also of her favorite son, Richard the Lion-Heart...