Word: amours
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Martini--Plaisir d'amour...
...collection of poetic emanations of the "Comic Idea". First; the poems are to be grouped each according to the musical instrument that best represents its particular note, and there they are classified, ready to satisfy the reader's merest subconscious mood, all the way from Lyre and lute d'amour to saxophone and piccolo. Truly a Herfordian idea. Second, that the total amount of Prose written on the subject of Poetry is vastly in excess of the amount of actual Poetry that has been composed in the same space of time; accordingly it is time to turn the tables...
...Casanova, in life, was not only Don Juaner than Don Juan ever thought of being-he wrote eight volumes or so of memoirs to prove it. On the stage, in this play adapted from the Italian by Sydney Howard, he is somewhat expurgated but still romantic. The only real amour that dramatic exigencies permit him is one with Henrietta. The 300 others are sufficiently indicated in the delightful ballet-prologue. But space is left for the repentance of his dotage when, 20 years later, soothed by the sight of his illegitimate daughter, he dies kissing the carpet she has just...
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...