Word: aniela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Audiences loved him, but he was squandering his talent, and he knew it. The solution for that was pretty Aniela Mlynarski, daughter of a Polish conductor with whose orchestra Rubinstein had played as a boy. He met her when she was 16, married her when she was 22 and he was 43. Within a year he was a father (of Eva, now an actress in the Broadway hit The Diary of Anne Frank), and the responsibility made a serious and disciplined musician out of him. "I didn't want people telling my child after I died, 'What...
Dazzled by such repartee, Aniela, the Polish hired girl, soon said...
...Aniela, it develops, "was miraculous in the dark . . . Her great arms clutched about him in a frenzy. She made uncouth noises." Nevertheless David, "a brilliant young architect [who] had done a few big things bigly," is soon rolling in a snowbank with somebody else, "a pink avalanche of loveliness" named Mary. "There . . . with her sables and his great coat for blankets, David wooed a wintry Tsarina swathed in sables . . . The snow gave the deed the absolution of its own purity...