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...indulge in it. ... I know that once I get a thing - or a man - I'll tire of it and of him. . . . "I go to the movies. Garbo is a very great genius. I'm mad about her. And I'm not, as a rule, "very fond of women. . . . "If there's anything the matter with me now, it's certainly not Hollywood or Hollywood's state of mind. . . . The matter with me is, I WANT A MAN! . . . Six months is a long, long while. I want a man." After inquiring into...
...last few years, The Ripening is one of the neatest and best. Philippe and Vinca have spent many a comradely summer in the seaside cottage rented jointly by their families. But this year adolescence has made their old comradeship a little tense. Very fond of each other, they are ashamed of the word "love," take it mutually for granted that some day. . . . But the future gets a forced growth when Philippe meets a ripe lady who has a conveniently neighboring villa. She casts a greedily speculative eye on Philippe's 16-year-old bronzed body. When he brings...
Paul was married to Björg, in whose shallows he could not long imagine himself out of his depth. He was fond of her, in a more and more managerial way, but he could not quite put out of his memory his first love, Lucy, whose brusque disappearance he had never understood. Like other fundamentally mis-married men, Paul had leanings towards saintliness. Out of business hours he read and thought much about the Roman Catholic Church. When he finally decided to join it Björg was unsympathetic; when she found he intended to bring up their children...
...ballad, was composed by Mrs. Idabelle Smith Firestone, wife of Rubberman Harvey Samuel Fire stone. Mrs. Firestone is a mother of six, grandmother of three (who call her "Banny"), a longtime friend of Mrs. Henry Ford and Mrs. Thomas Alva Edison. Grey-haired, distinguished-looking Mrs. Firestone is fond of birdsongs, buggy-riding, playing on piano and organ. Improvising casually for her family several years ago, she played a melody which she said was inspired by her garden. They urged her to write it down. Arranged by Radio Orchestra Conductor William Merrigan Daly, with lyrics by one Lester...
...service of luncheon and he shouted it back to me. Then I shouted it back to him. When we left the governmental palace ... we rode in a state landau and Venizelos shouted the cheer at us from the steps when we were driving off. The Premier seemed very fond of the cheer and we could hear him quite a way down the street...