Word: adria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bright red trolleys still carrying advertisements of German products, they rode to see Shirley Temple in The Little Princess. They bought lottery tickets in the tobacco shops. The best people still went to lunch at 2:30 and dragged it out until 6, sipped Kimmel at the streamlined Cafe Adria, laughed heartily over Geneva, a play by brash old Bernard Shaw about three dictators named Herr Battler, Signer Bombardone and General Flanco...
...middle age; but before he had resigned himself to the role of gentleman amidst inferiors a legacy gave him the means of making a new start. He left his vulgar acquaintance, went to London to be a publisher and fall decently in love with some well-bred Diana. In Adria, a girl in 400, he met his ideal. Because he was used to commoner clay he put her on a pedestal, solaced his more natural hours with a French manicurist. Unfortunately for herself, Adria fell in love with...
Francis did what he could in a situation that frightened him. Summoning up all his gentleman's blood, he kicked out the manicurist. Terrified but hopeful, he allowed himself to become engaged to Adria. He thought he was safe when he went to visit Adria in Venice, but his gentlemanly resolves rapidly evaporated in the hot Italian sunshine, the confining uses of a society which kept Adria impregnably surrounded. He continued to think of her as sacred, his manicurist as profane. When the manicurist, a determined creature, followed him to Venice, the rest was easy. Though Francis never knew...