Word: bloodedness
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The setting was University Commons, the massive undergraduate dining hall at Yale University. But the British ambience was decidedly fitting, for the occasion was the formal opening of the Yale Center for British Art, a four-story chest of art treasures donated by Mellon, 69, class of '29. The...
The editors of the American were not especially crass people, and their newspaper was not especially sensationalistic for its time. The American's Titanic edition simply illustrated a central fact of journalistic life: front-page stories about dead Polish immigrants don't sell newspapers. The public wanted stories about its...
Women on trial for murder in 19th century Britain and France were objects of fascination. Ladies followed every detail in the penny dreadfuls and were seen battling for tickets outside the courtroom. Victorian Novelist Eliza Stephenson observed that "women of family and position, women who pride themselves upon the delicacy...
The difference between R.R. and most of her rivals is intensity. Almost all the others write in pink ink about horse-and-carriage love and marriage; Rogers pumps out purple prose about red-blooded males and females living at white heat in electric-blue relationships. Passion drives her tales, and...
Alex and Maritza meet as she is running out, literally, on her third prospective bridegroom. She jumps into Alexander's car, weeping and yelling, pursued by her dear old dad and other hot-blooded types. "Three times my father sell me," she tells Main. "For good money, you know...