Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fisted, hell-bent "bluenose" skipper, with Nietzschean ethics, Vulcanic muscles, the passions of Poseidon, the luck of Lucifer. When his clipper Aphrodite goes down off Patagonia, this skipper's redemption is made cinema-credible by a bleak, briny coast, driving rain, starvation and the steadfastness of a childhood sweetheart...
Matters were in a bad way on Gilbert Jones' ranch one hot summer day with the mortgage due at 8 o'clock, a fretful uncle making a nuisance of himself, Gilbert's old sweetheart and her unpleasant husband complicating matters, and everybody fighting for possession of the ranch and the oil that would make its owner rich. Into this atmosphere charged with hate and what not besides comes Pancho Lopez to show how one can set the world aright with a sense of humor, a Colt 45, and a Machiavellian philosophy...
...Japanese, fireflies are the souls of departed lovers lighting the paths of living swains. Whereas in Occidental climes a robust suitor will kiss a flower and toss it to his sweetheart with truculent self-possession, a Japanese lover reverently presents a firefly encased in a small wicker basket...
...where all white men are no good has herewith arrived and given every evidence of appealing to the public taste. Naturally enough, the particular man in the case turns out very good indeed at the last, gives up his native housekeeper and falls into the arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm...
...troubles of the Halpin family. Coiny Halpin has sworn to kill Christie Barrett because Barrett's father kill his brother years ago; Ellen Halpin, his sister-in-law, is afraid her daughter wants to marry Christie--afraid not because of factional hate, but because Christie was her own childhood sweetheart. After many complications provided by Padna Collins, an Irish miser everything ends happily. Ellen marries Christie, Norah explains that she had long ago decided to become a nun, Corny Shakes hands with Christie, and the whole lot sails for Australia leaving Padna behind alone...