Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bitter Sweet (British & Dominions) is a lavender-scented reproduction of Noel Coward's operetta about a girl who married a young musician, became a dancer at the Viennese cafe where he led the orchestra, attracted the attentions of a lecherous captain, had her heart broken when the captain stabbed her husband to death. With much more charm than most British musicomedies-which are inclined to be prim and lazy-Bitter Sweet is notable chiefly for its blonde leading lady, Anna Neagle, a onetime chorus girl. The producers of the cinema version of Bittersweet which Noel Coward insisted be made...
...fine morning in 1858, a sweet infant boy, Gosuke Katakura, was born in the ancient empire of Japan. In that same year because a New Englander, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, had burst into the Bay of Yedo with four gunboats, the first commercial treaty between Japan and the U. S. was signed. If Gosuke's honorable father ever thought of any connection between the two events, he certainly did not conceive that the result would be 1) Gosuke becoming a multimillionaire; 2) Gosuke becoming peer of Japan; 3) Gosuke at the age of 75 going, in a silk suit...
...first one, took the officers & crew into Rome along Streets carpeted with laurel branches. A continuous blizzard of flowers and confetti all but buried the cavalcade. At the Piazza Colonna General Balbo made a speech: "We are humble soldiers of the great chief in whose name it is sweet and easy to win victory...
...nerve to ask him to play for me, for he sure knows piano. But he says: 'No, Duke, I can't come behind you in your piano music.' Did I get it? He just didn't want to cut in. But those princes are sweet fellows...
...London is full of boats, secondhand Buicks, and bouncing college girls. The Sound is the playground of sybarities. Stretching off to Long Island, the shoreline follows the water as a wet garment clings to the firm sweet limbs of a girl and the little line of foam, milky in the moon, decks her with lace...