Word: authoresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...confused with "Colette" (real name: Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Colette), authoress of purple-passionate French novels (Chert, Claudine at School...
...best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
Author Bromfield and Authoress Caldwell (British-born Mrs. Marcus Reback of Buffalo) are alike in two respects: both have many readers; both have very theatrical ideas of the world. Their latest novels reveal a further likeness. Both authors appear to have thought that a lush subject for fiction would be the regeneration of fabulously rich Americans by war shock...
Readers who have time for only one of these books must choose either 1) to be bored by an author who elaborates a fancy plot without turning it into a moving story, or 2) to be stirred up by an authoress who turns a passion inside out on every page. It is a choice between cold tripe and hot tripe...
...painter. Art proved tumultuous. When his canvases displeased him - as they often did - Hazlitt slashed them to pieces in fits of rage. Nice girls also displeased Hazlitt. When Charles Lamb introduced Hazlitt to a group of them, the essayist snarled that "they drove him mad." Well established already, says Authoress Maclean, was the "deep division in his nature ... a tendency to react from extreme refinement of feeling to extreme grossness of desire." Wrote Coleridge : "Hazlitt, to the feelings of anger and hatred, phosphorus - it is but to open the cork and it flames!" Wrote Hazlitt to his bride : "I never...