Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...juveniles are the real center of interest, however, and the lead is capably done by Eric Linden as the valedictorian of his class who is really a fine boy but somewhat carried off through reading Swinburne, Wilde, and George Bernard Shaw. Cecillia Parker is the sweetheart who promises to remember him even after he has gone away to Yale...
...play--it was presented in Boston and elsewhere a respectable number of years ago--but it still has a gentle comedy and a steady if somewhat pedestrian flow. It tells the story of three old bachelors whose moribund routine is upset by the will of their former sweetheart leaving them the care of her offspring who proves to be a very pretty girl and a good one even if she does have some shadowy connections with the underworld. Fundamentally it is one of those things which the playwrighting Spewacks diagnose as "Boy meets Girl; boy loses girl; boy gets girl...
...courtroom crowd turned toward Abrams, who had been pinching his tubes on a tin pan turned upside down. He held up a cream-colored icing on which were 32 peach-colored sweetpea blossoms, four bright pink Premier roses and five Sweetheart roses, whose pink faded delicately to white in the centre. "It's not really finished," he said, "but it's good enough to win." Three pastry experts and Judge Jonas agreed that...
...finances, feels no moral revulsion. Yet as Oliver grows to manhood he learns that in each of his quiet, passionless love affairs, the image of Mario stands between him and the object of his desire. In the case of his first love, he is rebuffed, not because his sweetheart loves Mario in person, but because she is attracted to the impulsive, spontaneous life that Mario represents, senses its absence in Oliver...
...rivals from the day they met. More, they were obsessed by their hatred of each other. But they rarely met. practically never spoke. Their paths parted briefly when Sharpies went up to Oxford and Wace into business. Sharpies turned up again just in time to steal Wace's sweetheart from under his nose, not for love of her but hate of him. That finished Wace's happiness: he took to drink, married a grateful prostitute. In middle age, both separated from their wives and each with a grown-up child, the enemies were settled in London. Sharpies began...