Word: liaisons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After having served as Major in the United States Army, he was attached as liaison officer to the French general staff and was decorated with the cross of the Legion of Honor...
...that a divorce would cost him the lovely suburban retreat which Mrs. Hubert had financed, so he cherished Lillian in a Bronx apartment on $15,000 acquired by selling his pitiful business. A series of bibulous, wretched parties fast depleted the finances, as well as the joys of the liaison. Finally he was reduced to borrowing from the butcher and the wife who by that time closed her door on him. Lillian went back to work at the handkerchief counter, kept Hubert...
...psychoanalysis belt. A Viennese practitioner of that science prescribes adultery for the wife of a boorish editor. His nostrum proves rather unpalatable, for the lover she chooses is too torrid for a woman acclimated to a temperate zone. Then too, her husband is rather unpleasant about the liaison, so she finally dashes off to Austria with the doctor. Walter Connolly is excellent as the smug, foolish husband, but Henry Hull's persistently fortissimo rendition of the other man frays the nerves and should detract from his reputation...
...married by any sensible keeper. The corporation lawyer so fortunate as to convert his woman into his wife is played by Walter Huston who last week delighted Manhattan in person in The Commodore Marries (see p. 18). While this couple are buffeted about by the vicissitudes of their liaison, chiefly consisting of the lawyer's bumptious children, they often run afoul of the lawyer's drinking crony (Charles Ruggles). Anyone who has ever laughed at drolleries induced by the decanter will be amused by this gentleman whose dialog is so real that it suggests...
...make the Junior Fraternities a liaison between different units seems to imbue some of their members with a hope for their ultimate salvation. Certainly it gives them more concrete reason for occupying the palaces in York Fields. It should silence the casual undergraduate who might look at the vast financial outlay represented in their houses and say "Why?" The possibility of service in keeping the quadrangles from becoming too strictly insular has advantages which commend themselves over the nebulous aims of the contemporary organizations. Yale Daily News...