Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself. Ben Coventry lives in seclusion in his Beacon Street house, breaks with his class when the amorous wife of an old friend guides him to her house at night, slowly recovers his balance only to die in the riots when mobs rule the city and thugs assault his sweetheart. John Hargedon, after a long career trapping and abandoning girls, is himself trapped into marriage by a shrewd wench who despises him, robs a house during the strike, shoots two gangsters after the same loot, and dies an ironically heroic death...
...where she has been developed into a Hollywood cinemactress in the two years since she abdicated her amateur standing as figure-skating champion of the world, Sonja Henie's popularity is fast becoming comparable to that of Mary Pickford when she was America's Sweetheart...
...enough to be married, had a suitor who had been a few times to see her, the parents, if they approved of the connection, would-what they called-bundle them; which bundling implied, putting them to bed together, the lady with only her under-petticoat on, and her sweetheart nothing but his breeches." Although this practice was denounced in some quarters as "that mischievous, wicked habit," in 1840 a commentator remarked: "Ten irregular citizens are now born to the republic, for one in those days of bundling simplicity...
...Scene I, a curly-haired youngster (Alexander Kirkland) gives up sweetheart and golf clubs when off-stage voices, quoting scripture, call him to the Church's service. Through 14 subsequent scenes, stern dominies keep this young, progressive zealot from his project of awakening the Church to "the demands of a changing world." They block his plan for a Church dance, they prevent his sheltering a pursued harlot, just as he has concluded that the Church is not all that it should be, his disapproving seniors unfrock him. He is glad...
...Julia Clark of Glasgow, Scotland, was sentenced to one month in jail and deportation, for violating Section 18 of the 1935 criminal code (de Valera's vice law) which forbids "any act ... offending modesty or causing scandal or injuring the morals of the community." Her offense: Kissing her sweetheart in public...