Word: amours
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Upon marrying an American millionaire she discovers he has seven divorced wives. Under the circumstances she postpones the honeymoon until he can establish the stability of his eighth amour. This he succeeds in doing after several moderately diverting reels of compromising situations...
...married the Archduchess Marie Dorothé Amélie de Saxe-Coburg Gotha. In 1913 his wife tried to divorce him. During the divorce proceeding wide publicity was given to his many affaires d'amour and he was accused of misusing the Duchess' dowry. The Duke's supporters, however, were successful in 1914 in persuading the Duchess to drop divorce proceedings. It made no difference to the Duke...
...that entertaining series of pruderies was simply to call the author a liar and go home in disgust-or else not to believe that it was over at all. But even if you had thought that that was the end of all things for the heroine's decorous amour, you would not have been thrilled at her renunciation. You could have cried about...
...What are they reading?" you ask. Geniuses, you know, are often made up of the queerest elements. The amorous book, "L'academie des Philosophes sur l'amour"; belonged to what court lady? No lady at all but to the staid Montesquieu, that man whose works Professor Munro always recommends but which no undergraduate has ever read. Perhaps that wary looking volume, which the card describes as "Etat des troupes et des etats-major des places"--once wholted the stern glance of Richelieu. It was Madame de Pompadour's and she, upon receiving it from His Majesty, probably placed it among...
...program for the "Pops" Concert for this evening at Symphony Hall at 8 o'clock, is as follows: Coronation March Svendson Overture to "Raymond" Thomas Waltz "Artist's Life" Strauss Fantasia, "Tosea" Pueeini Suite, "Sigurd Jorsalfar" Grieg March of the Little Lead Soldiers Pierue Andante and Minuet (Viola d'Amour solo, Paul Shirley) Milandre Roumanian Rhapsody Enesco Selection, "The Tales of Hoffmann" Offenbsch Waltz, "Girls of Baden" Komzsk First Slavonic Dance, Dvorak