Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...picture actresses of whom too faint is the chanted praise. They are all pretty. Miss Kenyon acts; possibly that is why she goes unrecognized in Hollywood. In this one, she acts a nurse who marries a blind soldier. His eyes open seven years later and a former sweetheart complicates conditions. Milton Sills is the soldier...
...manipulation of the manikins is made to suggest at one point a parallel to the sub-rosa and subauricular romance of the wife and her sweetheart. Ultimately, the husband discovers the liaison, offers his breast to the dagger of the other man. But the affair is hushed up without unnecessary stabbing...
...possible for the verse of one country to paraphrase that of another. Nevertheless, they were abominable poetry Some of the lines possessed a certain insipid grace; far more of them had the stilted, fustian air that can only be characterized by the adjective "operatic." Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight...
Polish doctors advised radium treatment, said he would have to go to Paris for it. She threw up her work to accompany her sweetheart to the French capital; she nursed him tenderly ; she gave her own blood in a transfusion operation. It was all to no purpose; he grew worse and worse...
...injured. Normally a mild-mannered man, Harley became morose and pugnacious in the spring of 1922, possibly as the result of his injury. He went to sanatoriums, seemed to recover, then relapsed. Friends told of his "cleaning out" restaurants and theatres, of his annoying the family of a former sweetheart by nocturnal demonstrations. The sweetheart's family and other friends of Harley instituted proceedings, in which Harley was found insane and sent back to confinement. Harley's petition now sets forth that he was "abducted," incarcerated illegally...