Word: bores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whole tale. Philip Ross and Kathleen Ryall had been childhood friends. Ross, newly in love with his old flame and desperate at the thought of losing her again, had faked his death and joined Mrs. Ryall. Moving first to London and then to a house in the country (which bore, by the sheerest chance, the motto: "To live happily, let us live hidden"), Mr. and ' Mrs. Sydney Davies-as they called themselves-had lived happily thereafter on Mrs. Ryall's money...
...considerably improved by the regular application of a rubber truncheon. Some may agree, but the heroine of this picture is not much of an advertisement for the method. Essentially, she is just one more gabby, opinionated woman, and whether from Pilsen or Pawtucket, she seems a bit of a bore...
...Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt not be found out." But the audience easily found out Librettist Bentley, who had broken the supreme stage commandment: "Thou shalt not bore...
...time," James, Duke of York, later James II, while she was lying flat on the turf after a riding spill. Timid, pale and thin, she was shortly installed as the duke's mistress in a mansion in St. James Square. A model of discreet industrious domesticity, she bore him several bastards, one of whom was ancestor of the illustrious Spanish Dukes of Alba. Helped by Arabella's prestige, her brothers did well too: George became a very unpopular admiral, while Charles became a fairly decent general. But John-who had already got his start in that affair with...
...that as it may, the Marlboroughs, all of whose five sons died young, left to no one their remarkable gusto for such a role. One of Sarah's more enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half American by blood (great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of John and Sarah), would rise to rally and astonish the Western world...