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Three days later, the suspicion was confirmed. Poet Blunt caught Emily alone, enfolded her in "a very hot embrace" and said: " 'Emily, might I come and see you in your room?' I replied indignantly: 'Certainly not!'. . . His remark could only have one meaning, I'm afraid...
Innocence & Scoundrels. Emily was 18 when the fundamentals of botany proved to be just as dangerous as Lady Ampthill had suggested. Poet Wilfrid Blunt, "a strikingly handsome" married man of 53, attempted to seduce her in the best tradition of Victorian villainy. Blunt wore Arab dress and exuded a virile masculinity breathtakingly different from the jam and waxworks of everyday life. "He took me through the park to a wood which was very pretty," Emily wrote his Rev. He at once took my hand and kissed it and stroked it, said he adored me, which I told...
THUS, in French blunt enough to be understood throughout his empire, Napoleon Bonaparte raised Jacques-Louis David to the heights. The Emperor's "first painter" had tasted glory before: a tradesman's son, he took part in the French Revolution, happily sketched victims going to the guillotine and became virtual art dictator of the republic under Robespierre. After Robespierre's downfall, he spent seven months behind bars. In 1804, the year of Napoleon's decree, David was 56 and a bit tired of ups and downs. Still, the emperor could not have made' a better...
...reception that he threw away his prepared speech and spoke extemporaneously for 20 minutes, throwing his schedule out of kilter and forcing Host Dwight Eisenhower to wait and sweat in the sweltering heat on the White House porch. Rhee's words of greeting at the airport were characteristically blunt: "If we only had a little more courage, we could have reached the Yalu . . . But some people had a little cold feet and we could not do what we were ready...
Died. Dr. Katharine Blunt, 78, longtime (1929-43, 1945-46) president of Connecticut College; in New London, Conn...