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The wife's philandering was a main pursuit, budding Communist loved their daughter. Boy wanl girl was his pursuit; a secondary pursuit. Estrange from his wife, the daughter's employer wanted he to go away with him ; another secondary pursuit.
Nosy neighbors one way or another all disapprove Jof the wife's affair, theirs a common pursuit but sec ondary. When the husband tried to interpret th silences that cloaked his wife's affair, two main pur suits, cheating and apprehension of cheating got unde way. Which gives a pretty fair idea of the coverag of the term pursuit.
The young hero in Holiday had worked hard anc saved his money with two ideas in mind, to marry the right girl and to get away from what he was doinj day after day. He called it a "desire to live." Bu the right girl happened to be the daughter of a verj wealthy man and the boy's "desire to live" did noappeal to her. She was eager for a social career eager that the boy start a business career.
Her sister sympathized with the boy, the fathei defending and furthering the social and business careers. That, and furthering the desire to live were the two main pursuits.
In The Three Smart Girls, three sisters, Kay, Joan, and Penny, living in Switzerland with their divorced mother, learned that their Daddy, living in New York, was engaged to a fortune-hunting siren, and their mother's grief was so poignant they decided to do something about it.
Hurrying to New York they used every lure, strategy and inducement, subtle and audacious that occurred to them, even enlisting the aid of boy friends and servants to get rid of the siren. But their Daddy was determined to enjoy his second youth as planned. Exercising that natural prerogative and the daughters trying to discourage such an idea at his age were thfe two main pursuits.
In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, one day Mr. Deeds was a poor but honest tuba player. The next day he was a rich tuba player, and still honest, too honest and open-handed to suit the scheming administrators of the estate he had inherited.
Contrary to custom, and much to the administrators5 alarm, Mr. Deeds proceeded to use his newly-inherited
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