Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mansell buys a dilapidated Tudor country house as a wedding present for his beautiful, sweet-tempered fiancée Margaret. When he fences out the fox hunters because he is sorry for the foxes, he brings the whole countryside down on him. Margaret is killed in an automobile accident the day before the wedding. Mansell sinks his grief into a feud with his neighbors. He hauls trespassers into court, buys up the remaining hunting coverts, announces that he will build a munitions plant, a model community, a machine gun range, a Buddhist temple...
Only after completing a scholarly dissertation on classical music did Claude consent to jazz. "I prefer a smooth, neatly arranged style," he said. Hot tunes are good to break the monotony, and they make a sweet tune sound bettre but a steady diet of swing is boring...
Life, once more sweet...
...Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like glee for the first time in many a moon, had justification for holding that sweet are the uses of electricity...
Finally, in desparation, he slips into her room by way of the window, locks all the doors, and attempts to scare the sweet young thing. However, Miss De Havilland is not as innocent as she appears, and indeed, finds herself quite pleased at the prospect. Mr. Howard finally gives up his reformation, succumbs to her attractions, and is engaged in kissing her just as Miss Davis enters. More or less disturbed, she plots a horrible plight for her straying fiancee, but finally yields to better instincts and Hollywood custom...