Word: paramours
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blue-eyed Vera," responded the equally blatant Journal, "emerged . . . as an enslaved girl who killed her paramour in revolt against his sadistic love practices...
...play which she wrote herself. . . ." Whether or not Klondike Annie is really worth the attention of Congressmen will depend on how familiar they are with earlier West efforts from which the current one differs only in detail. This time she is a San Francisco strumpet who knifes her Chinese paramour, slips on board an Alaska-bound freighter, enraptures its captain (Victor McLaglen), befriends a churchworker bound for Nome, usurps her identity when she dies, lands in Nome as Sister Annie Alden, enslaves a young territorial police officer (Philip Reed), renounces him rather than ruin his career, returns to San Francisco...
Since the two countries are worlds apart in spirit and institutions, the pact was signed and sealed last week not at one more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet Ambassador to France Comrade Vladimir Potemkin, signed with earthy, peasant-born black nostriled French Foreign Minister Laval a formal Treaty of Mutual Assistance important in itself and epochal in its implications...
...family to distraction. The boy and his young sister, Helen Claire, take the eccentricities of their mother most sincerely to heart with the result that they are unable to stand the atmosphere she creates in the house and are on the verge of killing the mother's paramour, who has also been freed of the same murder charges and who now openly comes to the house and is avowedly in love with her. The girl threatens to run away from it all and the boy nearly succeeds in killing the lover. Miss Sheridan admirably performs the difficult task of keeping...
...hear himself referred to as "unfortunate." When the mother leaves for good, he follows, implores her vainly to return. He is haled into a divorce court, tortured for testimony by opposing counsel. By judicial decree he spends eight unhappy months with the mother who has married her well-meaning paramour, returns to his father who is also planning to remarry. When he falls ill, his parents bicker over his bed, discover that neither wants him much, are relieved when the doctor suggests a military school. There Bobby is advised by another divorced boy" to accept the gifts and less & less...